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alii |
al. |
other persons |
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alis volat propris |
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she flies with her own wings |
State motto of Oregon |
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alma mater |
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nourishing mother |
Term used for the university one attends or has attended. The term is also used for a university's traditional school anthem. |
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alter ego |
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other I |
Another self, a second persona or alias. Can be used to describe different facets or identities of a single character, or different characters who seem representations of the same personality. Often used of a fictional character's secret identity. |
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alterum non laedere |
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to not wound another |
One of Justinian I's three basic legal precepts. |
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alumna or alumnus |
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pupil |
Sometimes rendered with the gender-neutral alum in English. A graduate or former student of a school, college, or university. Alumna (pl. alumnae) is a female pupil, and alumnus (pl. alumni) is a male pupil. Alumni is generally used for a group of both males and females. |
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amicus curiae |
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friend of the court |
An adviser, or a person who can obtain or grant access to the favour of powerful group, like a Roman Curia. In current U.S. legal usage, an amicus curiae is a third party allowed to submit a legal opinion (in the form of an amicus brief) to the court. |
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amo, amas, amat |
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I love; you love; he, she, or it loves |
Usually one of the first verb conjugations taught to a student of Latin. |
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amor |
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love |
Used in English as another name for Cupid; also as a reference to the object of one's affections. |
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amor patriae |
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love of one's country |
Patriotism |
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amor vincit omnia |
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love conquers all |
Written on bracelet worn by the Prioress in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. |
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annales |
ann. |
history or yearbook |
annals, chronicle of a year |
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anni |
ann. |
years |
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anno |
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in the year |
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anno ante Christum |
A.A.C. |
in the year before Christ |
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Anno Domini |
A.D. or AD |
in the Year of the Lord |
Short for Anno Domini Nostri Iesus Christi ("in the Year of Our Lord, Jesus Christ"), a common system for dating years based on a faulty attempt to gauge the year of Jesus' birth. Replaced in many cases today by "Common Era" or CE. |
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anno Hegiræ |
A.H. |
in the year of Hegira |
In the year of the flight of Mohammed from Mecca (622 CE) |
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anno inventionis |
A.I. |
in the year of the discovery |
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anno lucis |
A.L. |
in the year of light |
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anno mirabilis (pl. annus mirabilis) |
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a wonderful, extraordinary, or unusual year or years |
Said of a person who achieves or experiences much within the confines of a single year.
Example: In 1905, Einstein wrote five technical papers that profoundly changed our scientific world view, and he laid the basis for the field of quantum mechanics. Albert Einstein made revolutionary discoveries concerning the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion and the special theory of relativity during that year.
Example: 1939 saw these Hollywood releases: Goodbye Mr. Chips, Gone With The Wind, Gunga Din, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Wuthering Heights, Babes In Arms, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, and The Wizard of Oz.
The plural is used particularly to refer to the years 1665–1666, during which Isaac Newton made revolutionary inventions and discoveries in calculus, motion, optics and gravitation. Annus Mirabilis is also the title of a poem by John Dryden written in the same year. |
