E pluribus unum

E pluribus unum ( Latin ; freely translated: "From many one"; English : One from many ) is the emblem of the Great Seal of the United States , the official seal and emblem of the United States of America . Until 1956 the saying was also the unofficial motto of the USA, but Resolution 396 of the Congress made In God we trust the official motto in 1956 . The use of the motto on the seal of the United States from 1782 originally referred to the individual states that make up the United States. Today it is also often referred to the different peoples and ethnic groups from which the American people emerged ( melting pot ). It is also found on the symbolic US dollar banknote , on all US coins today and in the seal of the President of the United States, which is on the outside of Air Force One , for example .

Occurrence of the saying
On the seal of the United States
On the seal of the President of the United States
Above the eagle head of the half dollar coin
On the Presidential Service badge of the President of the United States

Trivia

The European Union has in 2000 in varietate concordia (unity in diversity) adopted a similar slogan, which as Europe motto is known.

Since the club was founded in 1904, E pluribus unum has been the motto of the Portuguese football club Benfica Lisbon and can be seen in its coat of arms.

E pluribus unum is the key phrase at the end of the science fiction short story The Impossible Planet ('The Impossible Planet') by Philip K. Dick from 1953.

literature

Wolfgang Hübner : E pluribus unum with Augustin . In: Revue d'études augustiniennes et patristiques 57 (2011), pp. 137-144 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : E Pluribus Unum - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Literally, plures ( ablative pluribus ) means “more” or outside of classical Latin also “several”; see. plures in the online dictionary Latin-German from Pons-Verlag and the chapter E pluribus unum in Klaus Bartels : Winged words from antiquity. von Zabern, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8053-4637-5 , p. 49 ff.
^ E pluribus unum - Origin and Meaning of the Motto Carried by the American Eagle

[1] Literally, plures ( ablative pluribus ) means “more” or outside of classical Latin also “several”; see. plures in the online dictionary Latin-German from Pons-Verlag and the chapter E pluribus unum in Klaus Bartels : Winged words from antiquity. von Zabern, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8053-4637-5 , p. 49 ff.

[2] E pluribus unum - Origin and Meaning of the Motto Carried by the American Eagle