You’ll impress everyone with your exquisite choice of words.Ĭarpe diem and other common Latin phrases and wordsīefore diving into the really cool Latin words and phrases, we have to make a quick stop in the ‘most common Latin phrases’ station.
confidently at the end of your conclusion. To show off how you logically proved something, use Q.E.D. or quod erat demonstrandum (’what was to be demonstrated’) – which, by the way, is the mic drop of Latin phrases. You know me: semper fidelis to the vanilla.Īs you probably already guessed, semper fidelis means ’always faithful’ or ‘always loyal’. Do you want the chocolate ice cream or the vanilla ice cream? Didn’t you notice how inserting some Latin words here and there automatically makes someone look smarter? Even the dullest conversation can become an erudite discussion if you use the right Latin sayings. But one thing is sure: Latin phrases are nowadays the cooler siblings of slang words. It’s unclear whether Latin made a comeback or it has been this cool for hundreds of years. Carpe diem, et cetera, cum laude, curriculum vitae and mea culpa are just a few of the Latin phrases still widely used today. Not yet a member? By becoming a member, you not only support our work but you also get immediate access to this Guide as well as all our past digital guides and art.Far from being a dead language, Latin is very much alive in our day-to-day conversations. If you haven’t yet, take a moment for yourself and the guide. Our Kinship Guide (Member Content) helps you reflect on the role of different relationships in your life. They were not necessarily intended to be used in conversation, but to exist for their own sake to give a semblance of order to a dark continent, so you can settle it yourself on your own terms, without feeling too lost - safe in the knowledge that we’re all lost.” “Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language - to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for. The word Sonder is the invention of John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Not only that, but you are writing your own script for it. Whether you realize it or not, you play a part in an endlessly-unfolding story. Kinship is our catch-all theme for exploring all types of relationships. And in subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle ways, we influence the trajectories of the people around us, those we have yet to meet and even those we will never get the chance to encounter. But we are, of course, part of everyone else's stories as well and these stories are deeply intertwined and interconnected. It’s easy to experience life from the lens of our own eyes, with ourselves at the center of our narrative. It’s such a concise and beautiful way to describe a reality that I too often forget. The definition gives me goosebumps every time I read it. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own - populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness - an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you'll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk. Just last week Julia, a member of the Holstee community in Austria, reminded me of another such word: Sonder.
I love words that perfectly capture a feeling or experience ( as you may remember from past Reflections on Arete, Mokusu, Kintsugi, and Shokunin Kishitsu).
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