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  2. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    Latin Translation Notes a bene placito: from one well pleased: i.e., "at will" or "at one's pleasure". This phrase, and its Italian (beneplacito) and Spanish (beneplácito) derivatives, are synonymous with the more common ad libitum (at pleasure).

  3. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [12] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [12] The input text had to be translated into English first ...

  4. Translation - Wikipedia

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    Translation of a text that is sung in vocal music for the purpose of singing in another language—sometimes called "singing translation"—is closely linked to translation of poetry because most vocal music, at least in the Western tradition, is set to verse, especially verse in regular patterns with rhyme.

  5. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.

  6. Lorem ipsum - Wikipedia

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    Using Lorem ipsum to focus attention on graphic elements in a webpage design proposal One of the earliest examples of the Lorem ipsum placeholder text on 1960s advertising. In publishing and graphic design, Lorem ipsum (/ ˌ l ɔː. r ə m ˈ ɪ p. s ə m /) is a placeholder text commonly used to demonstrate the visual form of a document or a typeface without relying on meaningful content.

  7. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.

  8. Carpe diem - Wikipedia

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    Carpe is the second-person singular present active imperative of carpō "pick or pluck" used by Horace to mean "enjoy, seize, use, make use of". [2] Diem is the accusative of dies "day". A more literal translation of carpe diem would thus be "pluck the day [as it is ripe]"—that is, enjoy the moment. It has been argued by various authors that ...

  9. Tao Te Ching - Wikipedia

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    Other notable English translations of the Tao Te Ching are those produced by Chinese scholars and teachers: a 1948 translation by linguist Lin Yutang, a 1961 translation by author John Ching Hsiung Wu, a 1963 translation by sinologist Din Cheuk Lau, another 1963 translation by professor Wing-tsit Chan, and a 1972 translation by Taoist teacher ...