Generic Phrases
Latin phrases?
My French teacher is all like "you need to learn some latin to see how French and other European languages began" and she gave these gay latin phrases that are used commonly today, It was like a list of 47. Here are the ones I couldn't get, could someone please tell me what they mean? *requiescat in pace *ex post facto *quid pro quo *Cogito, ergo, sum *mea culpa *Carpe diem
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- mea culpa my fault.. I dont know them but my language it's from the Latin. I speak spanish and u dont know to need latin to see that.. just make a comparion between spanish,portuguese,italian with french u will notice there are words very similar and we use the latin alphabet.. and we have articles for masculine and femine.. things that the english it doesnt have.. in english all is neutro there is not masculine or feminine in articles. in english only the pronoun she it's usage for feminine..in french they have une, un.. as in spanish un, uno,unas
- Cogito, ergo, sum: "I think, therefore I am" Mea culpa: "through my fault" or, to use the vernacular, "My bad" carpe diem: "pluck the day", or some say "ceize the day" quid pro quo: "something for something" requiescat in pace: "may he rest in peace" ex post facto: literally means "from a thing done afterward" but commonly known as "after the fact"
- 1. requiescat in pace - Rest in Peace 2. ex post facto - after the fact, retroactively 3. quid pro quo - something for something, an equal exchange 4. Cogito, ergo, sum - "Cogito, ergo sum" (Latin: "I think, therefore I am") is a philosophical statement by René Descartes, which became a foundational element of Western philosophy. "Cogito ergo sum" is a translation of Descartes' original French statement: "Je pense, donc je suis", which occurs in his Discourse on Method (1637). 5. mea culpa -I am to blame 6. Carpe diem - seize the day
