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List of Latin phrases (D)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ3187548 ↗
Source-derived summary

This page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome.

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Further reading

Adeleye, Gabriel G. (1999). Thomas J. Sienkewicz; James T. McDonough, Jr. (eds.). World Dictionary of Foreign Expressions. Wauconda, Illinois: Bolchazy-Carducci. ISBN 0865164223.

Stone, Jon R. (1996). Latin for the Illiterati.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3187548. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1999 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of Latin phrases (D)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.