In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.

Richard Quiney the younger, a schoolboy of eleven, wrote a letter in Latin asking his father to buy copybooks ( `` chartaceos libellos ) '' ) for him and his brother.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

Two committees of members of the Advisory Board constitute the committees of selection -- one for the selection of Fellows from Canada, the United States, and the English-speaking Caribbean area and one for the selection of Fellows from the Latin American republics and the Republic of the Philippines.

Latin America was once an area as `` safe '' for the West as Nebraska was for Nixon.

They will be for teaching, agriculture and community development in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

He thus kept his hands free for any action after Jan. 20, although reaction to the break was generally favorable in the U.S. and Latin America ( see the hemisphere ).

The Latin, for example, was not only clear ; ;

The name Austro-Asiatic comes from the Latin words for " south " and " Asia ", hence " South Asia ".

Algae ( or ; singular alga, Latin for " seaweed ") are a very large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length.

The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.

The Latin word came from Greek ἄβαξ abax " board strewn with sand or dust used for drawing geometric figures or calculating "( the exact shape of the Latin perhaps reflects the genitive form of the Greek word, ἄβακoς abakos ).

It eventually became used for the descendant languages of Latin ( the Romance languages ) and then for most of the other languages of Europe.

These alphabets have since been replaced with the Latin alphabet, except for decorative usage for which the runes remained in use until the 20th century.

European alphabets, especially Latin and Cyrillic, have been adapted for many languages of Asia.

The largest alphabets in the narrow sense include Kabardian and Abkhaz ( for Cyrillic ), with 58 and 56 letters, respectively, and Slovak ( for the Latin script ), with 46.

The basic ordering of the Latin alphabet ( ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ) is well established, although languages using this alphabet have different conventions for their treatment of modified letters ( such as the French é, à, and ô ) and of certain combinations of letters ( multigraphs ).

The Latin phrase falsum in uno, falsum in omnibus which, roughly translated, means " false in one thing, false in everything ", is fallacious in so far as someone found to be wrong about one thing, is presumed to be wrong about some other thing entirely.

The phrase ignoratio elenchi is from Latin, and can be roughly translated as " ignorance of refutation ", that is, ignorance of what a refutation could logically be.

Manufacturing accounted for 16. 3 percent of GDP in 1986 and employed roughly 13 percent of the labor force, making Paraguay one of the least industrialized nations in Latin America.

The Latin term gloria roughly means boasting, although its English cognate-glory-has come to have an exclusively positive meaning ; historically, vain roughly meant futile, but by the 14th century had come to have the strong narcissistic undertones, of irrelevant accuracy, that it retains today.

Indeed, their Latin name translates roughly as: " maned one with the broad forehead ".

Spaces were not used to separate words in Latin until roughly AD 600 – 800.

During the campaign, Fujimori was nicknamed El Chino, which roughly translates to " Chinaman "; it is common for people of any East Asian descent to be called chino in Peru, as elsewhere in Latin America, both derogatively and affectionately.

The motto of the Nautilus was Mobilis in mobili, which may be roughly translated from Latin as, " moving amidst mobility ", " moving within the moving element ", or " changing in the changes ".

Imperium is a Latin word which, in a broad sense, translates roughly as ' power to command '.

The vast majority — estimated at roughly 300, 000 — were from Brazil, but there is also a large population from Peru ( non-Japanese-Peruvian with false documentation that is about 36 % of total Japanese-Peruvian population in Japan ) and smaller populations from Argentina and other Latin American countries.

Austria was originally called Marchia Orientalis in Latin, the " eastern borderland ", as ( originally roughly the present Lower -) Austria formed the eastern outpost of the Holy Roman Empire, on the border with the Magyars and the Slavs.

The related term vainglory is now often seen as an archaic synonym for vanity, but originally meant boasting in vain, i. e. unjustified boasting ; although glory is now seen as having an exclusively positive meaning, the Latin term gloria ( from which it derives ) roughly means boasting, and was often used as a negative criticism.

The hawksbill turtle's genus of Eretmochelys is derived from the Latin root eretmo, which roughly translates to oar.

The Latin word Imperator was originally a title roughly equivalent to commander under the Roman Republic.

The country is described as " the smallest country in Latin America ", and, based on its description, lies roughly within the borders of real-world Venezuela and Colombia.

The Hebrew term shalom is roughly translated to other languages as peace ( i. e. paz and Pr., paix, pace ), from the Latin pax.

The term sagittal refers etymologically to the median suture between the right and left parietal bones of the cranium, known classically as sagittal suture, because it looks roughly like an arrow by its confluence with other sutures ( sagitta ; arrow in Latin ).

This usage of the term Americano as something distinct from European, Amerindian, African and their admixtures, roughly corresponds to its current usage in Latin America.

The Latin motto of the regiment is Nunquam retrorsum, which can be roughly translated as " Never retreat ".

Spring Peepers are tan or brown in color with a dark cross that roughly forms an X on their dorsa ( thus the Latin name crucifer, meaning cross-bearer ), though sometimes the marking may be indistinct.

The game itself would have taken place in a world inside the Avatar's mind ( the world was called " Alucinor ", which roughly translates from Latin " Wandering in the mind "), and the people in the world were tasked to follow the eight virtues in the hopes of aiding the Avatar in gaining the power to completely defeat the Guardian.

* Zucaritas in Latin America ( the word roughly translates as " Sugaries ")

The name Pennsylvania, which translates roughly as " Penn's Woods ", was created by combining the Penn surname ( in honor of William's father, Admiral Sir William Penn ) with the Latin word sylvania, meaning " forest land ".

An alternative derivation is that lug refers to the Celtic word for light ( a cognate of Latin lux and English light ), with roughly the same meaning as Clermont ( clarus mons ).