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Cacoëthes

Cacoëthes: Rooted malignant disease, addiction, a medical term; from Greek κακοήθης kakoḗthēs , German 'malicious, malicious, malicious' ("of bad character"); Of which specifically:

Cacoethes carpendi: "Addiction to criticism"
Cacoëthes regnandi: "The addiction to rule"
Cacoëthes scribendi: "Writing addiction" - Juvenal , Satire 7.51 f., Where it says: "insanabile ... scribendi cacoethes" ("the incurable addiction of writing")

Cacumen

Cacumen radicis loco ponis.: “You put the top in place of the root.” (Meaning: In your theory you anticipate the goal as the beginning.) Seneca , Epistulae morales 124.7.

Caeca

Caeca amore est.: “She is blind with love.” - Plautus : Miles gloriosus 1259

Caeca invidia est.: “Envy is blind.” - Livy , ab urbe condita 38.49.; The sentence from the speech of Manlius reads completely: "Caeca invidia est nec quidquam aliud scit quam detrectare virtutes" ("Blind is envy and can only reduce advantages.")

Caeci

Caeci sunt oculi, cum animus alias res agit.: “The eyes are blind when the spirit does other things.” - Publilius Syrus : Sententiae 115

Caecior

Odysseus conjures up the shadow of Teiresias

Caecior Tiresia: “Blind than Teiresias” - Teiresias was a blind fortune teller of the Greeks before Troy . His blindness was so proverbial that Juvenal can say “Tiresias” instead of “blind”: “You will be happy to admit that none of the gods is deaf or a Tiresias.” “Blind than Tiresias” therefore means “more blind than blind”.

Caedite

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.: "Kill them all! God already knows his people. ”- In the Albigensian Crusade (1209 to 1229) the papal envoy, Abbot Arnaud Amaury , is said to have responded to the crusaders with this order when asked how they should distinguish the heretics from the normal inhabitants.

Caelebs

Caelebs caelestium vitam ducens.: “A bachelor lives a life like in heaven.” - Priscianus : Institutiones grammaticae 1.23

Caelestem

Caelestem ergo admirabilem ordinem incredibilemque constantiam, ex qua conservatio et salus omnium omnis oritur, qui vacare mente putat is ipse mentis expers habendus est.: "Anyone who thinks that the wonderful order and unbelievable constancy of the heavenly, from which all maintenance and all life of everything comes, is without spirit, is to be regarded as spiritless." - Cicero in view of the even planetary movement, which is the cosmic guarantor of all Movement and thus all life was considered (De Natura Deorum, II, 56).

Caelestis

Caelestis aqua ad bibendum omnibus antefertur.: "Rainwater is preferred to drinking." - Palladius , Opus agriculturae 1.17,4

Caelestis ira quos premit, miseros facit, humana nullos.: “The wrath of the gods plunges whoever it meets into misery, the wrath of men destroys.” - Seneca , Hercules Oetaeus 441–442

Caelo

Caelo demissa: "Sent down from heaven" - originated by supernatural power; Livy: From urbe condita 22. 29.3

Caelo tegitur, qui non habet urnam.: “ Those who do not have an urn are covered by the sky.” - Lucan , Pharsalia 7,819

Caelo tonantem credimus Iovem regnare.: “In heaven, we believe, the thundering Zeus rules.” - Horace : Carmina 3.5.1-2

Caelum

Caelum ac terras miscere: "Mixing heaven and earth" - mixing everything up; Livy : From urbe condita 4.3,6

Caelum et terra transibunt, verba autem mea non transibunt.: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words shall not pass away." - Vulgate : Gospel of Mark 13:31 VUL

Caelum undique et undique pontus: “All around only sky and sea” - Virgil : Aeneid 3.193

Caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.: "Those who rush across the sea change the line of the sky, not their consciousness." - a hexameter from Horace 's Epistulae (1,11,27); : - - / - vv / - - / - - / - vv / - -

Caelum vituperare: “Blame Heaven” - having something to complain about even in heaven; Phaedrus : Liber fabularum 4.7.26

Caesar

Italy, Rubicon highlighted

Caesar ad Rubiconem: "Caesar on the Rubicon" - At the crossroads. The Rubicon was the border river between the Roman province of Gallia cisalpina and Italy proper. Against the Senate mandate , Caesar crossed the border river with the famous remark alea iacta est (see there).

Caesar citra Rubiconem.: “Caesar this side of the Rubicon.” - Cicero: Orationes Philippicae 6.5

Caesar non supra grammaticos: "The emperor is not above the grammarians." - The Roman-German king and later emperor Sigismund had used the Greek word schism as feminine at the Council of Constance and ordered to use it in the future in order to gloss over his mistake. Specifically, Sigismund is said to have said:; "Ego sum rex Romanus et supra grammaticam."; "I am the king of Rome and I stand above grammar."; The scene is modeled on Suetons De grammaticis 22:; “Hic idem, cum ex oratione Tiberium reprehendisset, affirmante Ateio Capitone, et esse illud Latinum, et si non esset, futurum certe iam inde: Mentitur inquit Capito; 'Tu enim, Caesar, civitatem dare potes hominibus, verbo non potes.' "; When the same (= the grammarian and style critic M. Pomponius Marcellus) had rebuked the <Emperor> Tiberius for his language, but Ateius Capito affirmed that the expression was really Latin and, if not, it would be certain from now on, he replied: “Capito is lying. You, Caesar, can give people citizenship, but not one word. "; Bertolt Brecht is said to have countered the accusation of having disregarded the rules of grammar in some of his poems with the following words:; "Ego, poeta Germanus, supra grammaticos sto."; "I, a German / real poet, stand above the grammarians." The play on words with the ambiguity of the transferred meaning of "germanus", which initially relates to physical relationship, equal to "corporeal, genuine, true" on the one hand and "germanus" equal to "German ", which here takes the place of the much more common" germanicus ", on the other hand, goes back to the German humanists and Luther.

Caesarem

Caesarem vehis eiusque fortunam.: “You are driving Caesar and his luck.” - The historian Plutarch tells that Gaius Julius Caesar wanted to drive back to Italy from Epirus on a winter night in 48 in spite of the storm to draw missing legions against Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus. But the skipper hesitated to venture across in this swell until Caesar called out to him in Greek: " Καίσαρα φέρεις καὶ τὴν Καίσαρος Τύχην συμπλέουσαν. "-" You are driving Caesar and Caesar's happiness is sailing with you! "

Caestum

Caestum Veneris habere: “Own the Belt of Venus” - surprisingly gain affection; Erasmus from Rotterdam : Adagia 2136 (after Lukian ):; “The belt of Venus is owned by someone who surprisingly wins everyone's affection. The expression comes from Homer's Iliad, Book 54, where Hera, with the intention of luring Zeus into her bed, goes to Aphrodite and borrows the belt from her that makes them lovable and desirable. "

Calamitas

Calamitas virtutis occasio est.: “Adversity is an opportunity to show one's strength.” - Seneca: De providentia 4,6

Calceos

Calceos mutare: "Change his shoes" - his social status; Erasmus from Rotterdam: Adagia 3713

Calumnia

Calumnia est quaevis versutia, qua alteruter litigantium adversarium suum circumvenire conatur.: "Right twist is any kind of cunning with which one of the litigants tries to deceive his opponent." - Legal rule

Candida

Candida candidis: "Pure for the pure" - literally "White for the whites"; Queen Claude de France's motto , next to her heraldic animal, the swan

Canem

Canem timidum vehementius latrare quam mordere.: “A fearful dog barks more violently than it bites.” - Curtius Rufus : Historiae Alexandri Magni 7.4.13

Canes

Canes mordent ultimum.: "The last will be bitten by the dogs."

Canes plurimum latrantes raro mordent.: "Dogs that bark a lot rarely bite."

Canes timidi vehementius latrant.: "Scared dogs bark harder."

Canis

Canis a non canendo.: “The dog is called a dog because it doesn't sing.” - Parody of false etymological derivations, such as B. also " Lucus a non lucendo ".; Example of theories about word origins seriously advocated by ancient authors. Varro explains in his de lingua Latina (7.32):

Canis Canem Edit.: "Dog eats dog." - as much as eating and being eaten, title of a video game

Canis caninam non est.: “A dog does not eat dog meat.” - Varro : De lingua Latina 7.31

Canis festinans caecos parit catulos.: "A dog in a hurry gives birth to blind boys." - Corresponds to the German saying "Good things take time."

Canis fidele animal.: "The dog is a loyal creature."

Canis mortuus non murders.: "A dead dog does not bite." - proverb

Canis peccatum sus dependit.: “The pig atones for what the dog has eaten up.” - Erasmus of Rotterdam : Adagia 2299

Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam murders.: “A fearful dog barks more violently than it bites.” - Curtius Rufus : Historiae Alexandri Magni 7.4.13. Corresponds to the German proverb "Dogs that bark don't bite."

Cantare

Cantare amantis est.: “He who loves sings.” - Augustine : Sermones 336

Cantat

Cantat avis quaevis, sicut rostrum, sibi crevit.: "Every bird sings as its beak grew." - proverb

Canticle

Canticum canticorum: "Song of Songs" - Vulgate : The High Song

Cantilenam

Cantilever at eandem canere: “Always sing the same song” - the old lyre; Terence : Phormio 495

Cantores

Cantores amant humores.: “Singers love damp things.” - Origen : Homiliae in librum iudicum 3,1

Cantus

Cantus avis talis, rostri formatio qualis.: "The bird's song is like the texture of its beak."; A proverb with the meaning: every bird sings as its beak grew.

Cantus firmus: “Fixed chant” - Originally what is meant in the polyphonic musical setting is the fixed main melody. This is indicated, abbreviated as cf , especially when it is not in the top voice.

Cantus planus: "Even singing" - unanimous chorale from the 12th century

Capiat

Capiat qui capere possit.: An often misinterpreted dictum ("It grab who can grab").; The original formulation can be found in the Gospel according to Matthew 19:12: “Qui potest capere, capiat”: “He who can grasp it, let him grasp it” ( grasp in the sense of understanding ).

Captatio

Captatio benevolentiae: “Capturing benevolence” - introductory phrase with which one compliments the listener or reader at the beginning of a speech or a letter.

Caput

Caput cenae: “Head of the meal” - The Romans liked to have a whole animal served as the main course .

The Capitol with the star of Michelangelo

Caput mundi: "Head of the World" - In the formula "Roma Caput Mundi", Rome as the capital of the world. In the paving of the Capitol is a multi-rayed star, the universe, with the sun and the emperor in the middle. Michelangelo thus represented the self-image of ancient Rome as the head of the world.

Caput Nili quaerere: “ Searching for the source of the Nile ” - the Romans used a phrase for an unsolvable task.

Cardo

Cardo duplex: "Double (earth) axis" - Means the two poles of the earth

Cardo maximus: "Main axis" of a Roman camp or a Roman city or a line in the area, always running in north-south direction, while the one running in east-west direction was called decumanus .

Caritas

Caritas numquam excidit.

Caritas omnia potest.: “Love can do everything.” - Hieronymus : Epistulae 1,2

Caritas omnia sustinet.: “Love endures everything.” - Jerome: Epistulae 7.4

Caritas omnia tolerat.: “Love endures everything.” - Augustine : Sermones 4

Caritas rei publicae incipit a familia.: “Love of the state begins with the family.” - Francis Bacon : De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum 6.3

Carmen

Carmen figuratum: " Figure poem "

Carmen sibi intus canit.: “He sings his praises to himself.” - Cicero: De lege agraria 2.68

Carmina

Carmina Burana: “Songs from Beuren” - the title under which the medieval song manuscript of the Benediktbeuern monastery was published in 1847 .

Carmina dant vitam.: "Songs give joy of life."

Carmina non dant panem.: “Songs don't make bread.” - Petronius: Satyricon 83,9

Carne

Carne opus est, si satur esse velis.: “If you want to be full, you need meat.” - Martial : Epigrammata 13.2,6

Carne vale!: “Farewell, meat!” - Probably a reinterpretation of the word carnival , after which (during Lent ) eating meat was forbidden. In the 19th century, the term was also derived from the Roman "carrus navalis" ship's cart, a ship on wheels that was taken through the streets during annual parades to restart shipping.

Caro

Friedrich Overbeck : Sale of Joseph to the Egyptian traders (1817)

Caro nostra: "Our flesh (and blood)" - quote from Genesis 37:27 EU , which tells how Joseph is sold by his brothers and Judah prevents his brothers from killing him:; “Come, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites; but don't let our hand be on him, for he is our brother, our flesh! And his brothers listened to it. "

Carpe

Carpe diem on a sundial

Carpe diem !: "Seize the day!" - phrase that comes from the ode 1,11,8 of the Roman poet Horace :; "Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero."; "Use the day with as little trust as possible in the next!"

Carpe noctem!

Carpent

Carpent tua poma nepotes.: “Your grandchildren will reap your fruits.” - Virgil: Bucolica 9.50

Carum

Carum est, quod rarum est.: "What is rare is valued."

Casta

Casta placent superis.: "Pure like the gods" - Tibullus , elegy 2,1,13.

Castis

Castis omnia casta.: “Everything is pure to the pure.” - Vulgate: Letter to Titus 1:15

Case

Casum sentit dominus.: "The owner feels the damage." - Legal rule

Casus Belli: “Event (occasion, justification) for a war; Cause of war ”- fact that ultimately triggers a war. Cicero : Ad familiares 6.1,7

Casus et natura in nobis dominantur.: “Chance and nature rule over us.” - Cicero: Ad familiares 4.12.1

Casus foederis: " Alliance case " - a situation in which an obligation entered into by a state on the basis of a military assistance treaty to enter into a war itself that the ally is waging becomes effective.

Casus fortuitus a mora excusat.: "Coincidence excuses delay." - Legal rule

Casus magister alius et paene numerosior.: “Chance is another and almost more frequent teacher.” - Pliny the Elder Naturalis historia 17.24.

Casus obliquus: "Oblique case" - term from grammar that describes all cases except the nominative , which is called casus rectus (upright case) because it can stand for itself, while the oblique case occurs only based on other parts of the speech.

Casus pro amico: "Cases for a friend" - (term for a friendship service, about which it says: "casus pro amico potius nominandos esse casus pro diabolo" - "cases for a friend it would be better to call cases for the devil".)

Causa

causa accidens: the accidental cause

causa activa agens: the active cause

causa adaequata: the corresponding cause

Causa aequat effectum.: "The cause corresponds to the effect."

Causa causae est causa causati.: “The cause of the cause is the cause of the caused.” - Liber de causis 63

Causa cessante cessat effectus.: "With the absence of the cause, the effect disappears." (Theorem of Scholasticism )

Causa cognita: “After determining the situation” - Cicero: In Verrem 2.1.25

causa cognoscendi: the reason for knowledge

causa corporalis: causa corporalis the physical cause

causa creatrix: the creative cause

Causa criminalis non praeiudicat civili.: "A criminal process does not precede a civil process."

causa deficiens: the negative cause; also: causa defectiva

causa directa: direct cause

causa efficiens: the active cause, the causality according to which the following states appear to have been brought about by the earlier ones; also: causa effectiva , which is listed in Aristotle

causa essendi: the ground of being, the cause of becoming; also "Causa fiendi"

Causa est potior causato.: The cause has more being effect; with Thomas Aquinas

causa exemplaris: the exemplary cause, the archetype, the idea as cause

causa extrinseca: the external cause

causa finalis: the ultimate or ultimate cause, the causality according to which the event is determined by a pre-existing, presupposed goal; the purpose as the cause (see teleology )

Causa finita.: “The matter is closed.” - Any further discussion is pointless.; In a sermon (sermo 131,10) Augustine goes into the fight against the teachings of Pelagius , against whom he himself had opposed: “Iam enim de hac causa duo concilia missa sunt ad Sedem Apostolicam: inde etiam rescripta venerunt. Causa finita est. "(" Because two embassies have already been sent to the Apostolic See on this matter. Answers came from there. The matter is over. "); This was shortened to the proverb "Roma locuta causa finita": "After / Because Rome has spoken, the matter is over."

causa formalis: the formative, the formative cause

causa immanens: the immanent cause in Baruch Spinoza

Causa inferior dicendo fieri superior potest.: “Through eloquence the weaker thing can become the stronger.” - Promise of the Greek sophist according to Cicero: Brutus 30. In Greek it says: “ τὸν ἥττω λόγον κρείττω ποιεῖν ” - “make the weaker thing stronger” .

causa influens: the influential cause

causa intrinseca: the inner cause

causa instrumentalis: the central cause

causa materialis: the cause working in matter, the substrate of the working (the condition )

causa movens: the moving cause - also: causa motiva

causa occasionalis: the casual cause

causa per se: the cause by itself; with Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas; See Causa sui .

Causa posita ponitur causatum.: The cause is the effect

Causa precedit effectum.: The cause precedes the effect (with Johannes Duns Scotus )

causa great: the first cause ( causa prima est, cuis substantia et acto est in momento aeternitatis et non temporis in Albertus Magnus); As próte aitía in Plato and Aristotle .; The opposite is causa secunda

causa principalis: the root cause

causa privans: the robbing, non-being cause

causa proxima: the next cause

causa remota: the distant cause

causa sine qua non: unconditional cause; an indispensable condition, a necessary condition, without which something else cannot occur.

causa socia: a common cause; also causa communis

causa sufficiens: a sufficient reason

causa sui: the cause of itself (self-cause)

causa vera: the real, the real cause; with Isaac Newton

Causae

causae sunt quinque bibendi

Si bene commemini, causae sunt quinque bibendi:
Hospitis adventus, praesens sitis atque futura
Aut vini bonitas et quaelibet altera causa.

If I remember correctly, there are five reasons for drinking:
arrival of a guest, thirst now and in the future,
good wine and any other reason.

In the General German Kommersbuch it is from causae sunt quinque on the refrain to the cantus "Die Zecher von Fulda" ("The Brothers of St. Benedict ...") by Ludwig Liebe (1891).

Cave

Cave-canem mosaic from Pompeii

Cave a consequentariis.: “Beware of the principle riders .” - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Cave canem: “Warning of the dog” - inscription on a floor mosaic depicting a dog at the entrance of a house in Pompei . Petronius: Satyricon 29.1

Cave Idus Martias!: “Beware of the Ides of March !” - With these words, according to Plutarch, the Augur Titus Vestricius Spurinna warned Gaius Julius Caesar against going to the Senate on the Ides (middle of the month). On March 15, 44 BC BC Caesar was stabbed there by conspirators.

Cave, ne armarium doctius quam pectus habeas.: “Make sure that your library is not more educated than you are.” - Caecilius Balbus: Sententiae 48.6

Cave tibi a cane muto et aqua silenti.: "Beware of a mute dog and still water." - Corresponds roughly to the German proverbs "Dogs that bark, do not bite." And "Still waters are deep."; Still water does not stand for deep water here, but for water that may be contaminated with pathogens. In the Middle Ages and into the 19th century, for example, villages and towns were contaminated by such water, which often led to epidemics. Furthermore, a common ruse was to poison the "still" water during a siege. This was not feasible with running water. See epidemics , plague .

Cave quicquam dicas, nisi quod scieris optime.: "Don't talk about something you don't know exactly."

Caveat

Caveat emptor: "The buyer should be careful" - the purchase risk lies with the buyer.

Caveat lector: "The reader should pay attention" - the author does not guarantee the accuracy of what is said. Probably a more recent variation on caveat emptor .

Caveat venditor: "The seller should pay attention" - The responsibility for the warranted properties of a product lies with the seller.

Cedant

Cedant arma togae, concedat laurea laudi!: "Should the toga give way to weapons, the laurel should give way to praise."; What is meant by this is: the politician has priority over the general, the laurel wreath of the winner is worth less than the civil commendation.; It is a hexameter from Cicero's autobiographical epic De consulatu suo ( About his consulate ), which the author quotes in whole or in part several times in his works.; The second half of the verse was already quoted in antiquity with a slightly different wording: "... concedat laurea linguae" ("the laurel wreath should give way to eloquence").

Cedant tenebrae lumini et nox diurno sideri.: "The shadow should give way to the light and the night to the daylight." - Inscription on sundials

Cedite

Cedite Romani scriptores, cedite Graii, nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade.: “Step back, you Roman writers, step back, you Greeks. Something bigger than the Iliad emerges. ”- Properz , Elegien 2,34,65 f.

Cedo

Cedo maiori.: "I give way to the bigger one."

Cedo nulli.: “I don't give in to anyone.” - the motto of Erasmus of Rotterdam

Cena

Cena comesa venire: “Don't come until everything has been eaten” - Varro : De re rustica 1.2,11

Cena dominica: “Supper of the Lord” - Last Supper according to the Vulgate: 1st Letter of Paul to the Corinthians 11:20

Cena dubia: "Doubtful meal" - a splendid meal, where the variety of dishes is difficult to choose. Horace: Sermones 2.2.77

Census

Census Romanus: "Roman Tax" - Peterspfennig (also Denarius Sancti Petri ), a collection of money that is considered to be an expression of the solidarity of Catholics with the Pope .

Centesimus

Centesimus annus

Centum

Centum sunt causae, cur ego semper amem.: “There are a hundred reasons why I always love.” - Ovid , Ars amatoria

Cessante

Cessante causa cessat effectus.: "If the cause disappears, the effect also disappears."
Cessante iure cessat lex ipsa.: "If the right ceases to exist, the law also ceases to exist."

Cetera

Cetera desunt: "The rest is missing."

Ceteris

Ceteris paribus: “All other things being equal” - All other things being equal. A statement or theory is formulated with the ceteris paribus reservation, i. H. their validity is made dependent on the continuation of the boundary conditions. Thomas Aquinas : Summa contra gentiles 1.102

Ceterum

That destroyed Carthage

Ceterum censeo (Carthaginem esse delendam): "Besides, I apply (the destruction of Carthage)." - A persistently repeated demand. Before the start of the Third Punic War , Cato is said to have demanded the destruction of Carthage with this saying at the end of each Senate meeting . Plutarch is the only author to quote Cato “literally”, but only in ancient Greek: Δοκεῖ δέ μοι καὶ Καρχηδόνα μὴ εἶναι. - "But I request that Carthage no longer exist either."

Ceterum censeo progeniem hominum esse deminuendam.: “Incidentally, I am of the opinion that human offspring must be reduced.” - Statement by biologist Bernhard Grzimek based on the above quote.

Character

Character indelebilis: “Unforgable imprint” - Means that certain sacraments indelibly shape the person who has received them. Baptism , confirmation and ordination , which are irrevocable and unrepeatable, give such a stamp . In connection with priestly ordination, the expression means that the ordained remains a priest for life, even if he no longer holds an ecclesiastical office, even if he has been banned from exercising the priestly functions for disciplinary or magisterial reasons or if he has been lauded on request.

Christianos

Execution by hunting animals

Christianos ad leonem.: “The Christians before the lions!” - slogan for persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire . Tertullianus: Apologeticum 40,2 (His reply to it: "Tantos ad unum?" - "So many before one?")

Christianus

Christianus nullius est hostis.: “A Christian is no one's enemy.” - Tertullian : Ad Scapulam 2,6

Christ

Christo auspice right: "Rule under the auspices of Christ" - the motto of Charles I , 1625 to 1649 King of England , Scotland and Ireland

Christ

Christum diligere melius est omnibus scire.: Loving Christ is better than knowing everything. - Motto of indefinite origin of dubious Latinity.

Christ

Christ bene coepta secundet.: “May Christ bless what has begun well.” - Erasmus of Rotterdam : Colloquia familiaria, Auspicanti quippiam

20 * C + M + B + 08 - "Christ mansionem benedicat".

Christ mansionem benedicat .: “Christ bless this house.” - For Dreikönig , the carol singers write the traditional blessing C + M + B + with the respective year and three crosses (20 * C + M + B + 08) on the front doors or the door beams with consecrated chalk. According to the Children's Mission, this spelling has the following meaning: a star for the star of Bethlehem and the three crosses for the Triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The meaning of the letters C, M and B is officially interpreted as the abbreviation of the words "Christ mansionem benedicat" (= "Christ bless this house" ). In older folklore treatises, the interpretation of the letters as the initials of the three wise men ( Caspar , Melchior and Balthasar ) predominates. This is corroborated by the fact that in some regions the spelling K + M + B was common.

Christ mihi vita, mors lucrum.: "Christ means life to me, death means gain."; The sentence goes back to Paul , Phil 1,21 EU : “Mihi enim vivere Christ est et mori lucrum” (“For me, Christ means life and death gain”), also known as the beginning of the hymn “Christ is my life, death is my profit ”(Jena 1609).

Church window in Zabrze, Upper Silesia

Christ regnat.: "Christ rules."

} Christ Rex: "Christ the King" - Especially in Belgium, the followers of the Walloon fascist movement Rex (from Christ Rex), who collaborated with the National Socialists during the German occupation, are called Rexists .

Christ vincit.: "Christ wins."

Cibo

Cibo opus duraturis in laboratories.: “Those who want to persevere at work need food.” - Erasmus of Rotterdam : Adagia 2818

cicerone

Cicerone disertius ipso: “More eloquent than even Cicero” - Martial : Epigrammata 3.38,3

Ciceronianus

Ciceronianus es, non Christianus.: “You are a Ciceronian, not a Christian.” - You are a follower of the ancient educational tradition. Jerome : Epistulae 22.30

Cineres

Cineres evitans in carbones incidit.: "Avoiding the ashes, it falls into the (glowing) coals." Corresponds to the German phrase "from the rain to the eaves" .

Cineri

Cineri gloria sero venit.: “Fame comes too late for the ashes.” - Martial: Epigrammata 1.25,8

Cineri nunc medicina datur.: "The ashes are now given medicine." - Now one gives medicine to a dead person. Properz : Elegiae 2.14.16

Circuitus

Circuitus verborum: "Diffuse" - Cicero: Orator 78

Circuli

Circuli quadratura: " Squaring the circle " - Pseudo-Apuleius: Peri hermeneias 9

Circulus

Circulus aureus in naribus suis mulier pulchra et fatua.: “A beautiful but simple-minded woman is like a gold ring on the trunk of a pig.” - Vulgate : Book of Proverbs 11:22

Circulus in probando: “Circle proof” - the premises already contain what has to be proven.

Circulus vitiosus: "Faulty circle" - circular reasoning that leads around in a circle when what is to be proven is used again as evidence. Aristotle: Analytica priora

Circulus in demonstrando: "Circular reason"

Citius

Olympic medal from 1948

Citius, altius, fortius: "Faster, higher, stronger" - the motto of the modern Olympic Games . It was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin after an idea by the French Dominican Father Henri Didon , who first used this formulation at a school sports festival in Arcueil , at which Coubertin was present as the competition director.

Citius, quam escendas, cades.: “You fall faster than you rise.” - Macrobius: Saturnalia 2.7,9

Citius venit periclum, cum contemnitur.: “A danger comes faster if you despise it.” - Publilius Syrus : Sententiae 92

Cito

Cito! Cito, cito, cito! CCC!: "Eilig!" Or "Very Eilig!" - express mail (note on old letters for the postman)
Cito arescit lacrima, praesertim in alienis malis.: “Tears dry up quickly, especially if someone else's mishap.” - Quote from the works of Cicero
Cito maturum, cito putridum: "Ripe quickly, spoil quickly"

Civilitas

Civilitas successit barbarum.: "Civilization followed barbarism." - Motto of the US state of Minnesota

Civis

Execution of the apostle Paul by the sword

Civis romanus sum .: “I am a Roman citizen.” - With this sentence persecuted people in the Roman Empire invoked their citizenship. According to Cicero, In Verrem II , last words of the Roman citizen Publius Gavius, whom Verres had illegally crucified in his province. - Paul of Tarsus also successfully demanded not to be scourged without trial ( Acts 22 EU ) and to be transferred to the court in Rome ( Acts 25 EU ). According to tradition, this sentence saved him from crucifixion during his arrest , so that he was executed by the sword as a Roman citizen , probably in AD 64 .

Civis totius mundi: “ Citizens of the world ” - Cicero: De legibus 1.61. The term comes from the Greek κοσμοπολίτης ( cosmopolitan ) back, the Cynic with the Diogenes of Sinope called themselves.

Civitas

Civitas Dei: " God state " - Vulgate: Psalm 87. Title of the main work of Augustine

Civitas non mutatur, sed amittitur.: "Citizenship is not changed, it is lost." - Legal rule

Civitas sibi faciat civem.: “The state makes itself its citizen.” - The state itself determines who is a citizen.

Civitas terrena: "Secular State" - Augustine : De civitate Dei

Clam

Clam coarguas propinquum, quem palam laudaveris.: “Secretly reprimand your friend if you have publicly praised him.” - Solon in Pseudo-Ausonius: Septem sapientum sententiae 32

Clam delinquentes magis puniuntur quam palam.: "Secret crimes are punished more severely than open ones." - Legal rule

Clara

Clara est et quae numquam marcescit sapientia.: “Wisdom is radiant and imperishable.” - Vulgate: Book of Wisdom 6:12

Clara Vallis: "The famous valley" - name for the Cistercian monastery Clairvaux . See also: Bernardus valles amat. ( "Bernhard loves the valleys." )

Clarior

Clarior ex tenebris: "Lighter out of darkness" - the motto of various noble families

Claude

Claude os, aperi oculos.: "Close your mouth, open your eyes!"

Clausula

Clausula rebus sic stantibus: "With the proviso that things stay that way"
Clausulae insolitae inducunt suspicionem.: "Unusual clauses arouse suspicion."

Claves

Albrecht Dürer's Peter on the picture of the apostle with a key

Claves Sancti Petri: "The Keys of Saint Peter"

Symbol of the papacy , which goes back to the Bible passage in the Gospel according to Matthew (16.18), in which Jesus said to Peter :

“ Do it Petrus et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam. "-" You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church. "

It then follows: “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven.” The key is the attribute of the apostle Peter and can be found as a coat of arms symbol in the city seal of Bremen, for example .

Clavis

Clavis regni

Clement

Clement Victor.

Clericus

Clericus clericum non decimat.: "One cleric does not ask the other a tithing."

Clio ...

ClioMeTerThal EuErUrPoKal / ClioMelTerThal EuPolErUranCall: Two variants for two nonsense words as a reminder for the names of the nine muses :; CLIO - MEL pomene - TER psichore - THAL ia; EU terpe - ER ato - UR ania - PO lyhymnia - KAL liope or EU terpe - POL yhymnia - ER ato - URAN ia - CALL iope.

Coepi

Coepi parte carere mei.: "I began to miss a piece of myself," writes Ovid ( Tristia 4,10,32) about his suffering at the death of his brother.

Cogitationis

Cogitationis poenam nemo patitur.: “Nobody suffers punishment for their thinking.” - Thoughts are (punishable) free.; Roman legal maxim, e.g. B. in Digest 48,19,18 (Ulpian).

Cogito

Cogito ergo sum: “I think, therefore I am.” - Famous thought by the philosopher René Descartes . Thinking as proof of existence. If I can use my thinking to cast doubt on any sensory knowledge, the ultimate certainty is the existence of my thinking.; Kitchen Latin variation: "Coito ergo sum." - " I exist through coitus ."

Coincidentia

Coincidentia oppositorum

Coitus

coitus interruptus: "Interrupted sexual intercourse"

Colere

Colere populum est coli.: “To provide for the people means to be provided for.” - Bacon: De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum 6.3, Exempla 30

Collegium

Collegium Germanicum: “Deutsches Kollegium” - German seminary in Rome

Collegium musicum: "Musisches Kollegium" - Association of music lovers at universities

Collegium non moritur.: "A corporation does not die." - Legal rule that states that a corporation continues to exist even if individual members resign.

Collegium publicum: “Public College” - Public lecture at a university

Collegium Romanum: “Roman College” - Pontifical Gregorian University

Comes

Comes palatinus: " Pfalzgraf " - Also: palatinus , official and representative of the king in the German kingdom

Commemoratio

Commemoratio animarum: “Memory of the Souls” - All Souls' Day

Commemoratio omnium sanctorum: “Remembrance of All Saints” - All Saints' Day

Commemoratio quasi exprobratiost immemoris beneficii.: "The mention of a benefit is like a scolding of those who have forgotten it." - Terence : Andria 43-44

Comminus

Comminus eminusque.: “Near and far.” - Livy : Ab urbe condita 21.5.14

Comminus et eminus.: “Close as well as from a distance” - the motto of the French King Louis XII. after Cicero: Cato maior de senectute 19

Commoditas

Commoditas omnis sua fert incommoda secum.: "Every advantage has its own disadvantages." - Corresponds to the German saying "Where there is a lot of light, there is also a lot of shadow."

Commune

Commune bonum: “Common good” - Lucretius: De rerum natura 5.958

Commune naufragium omnibus solatium.: “A common shipwreck is a consolation for all.” - Erasmus of Rotterdam : Adagia 3209

Commune periculum concordiam parit.: "Common danger creates harmony."

Commune Sanctorum: "The general (sc. Form) for saints" - liturgical forms for use at saints' feasts without their own proprium . In the Commune Sanctorum a differentiation is made according to the type of saint (for example, in the case of Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia, the texts for holy widows would be taken).

Communi

Communi consensu: “With general agreement” - Caesar: De bello Gallico 1. 30.5

Communion

Communio sanctorum: “ Community of the saints ” - The community of all the baptized: subsection in the article of faith of the Creed to the Holy Spirit

Compelle

Compelle intrare.: “Force (them) to enter!” - the maxim of the Inquisition from the writings of the Doctor of the Church Augustine of Hippo , which goes back to a passage in the Gospel according to Luke (14:23), where in a parable of Jesus the host asks his servants to go out into the street go and invite passers-by to his party because those invited did not come. The advocates of the Inquisition saw it as an act of Christian charity to show an apostate the right way, if necessary under duress. Derived from this, a means of compulsion or a compelling motive was later referred to as a compelle .

Compensatio

Compensatio est debiti et crediti inter se contributio.: “Offsetting is the mutual compensation of a debt with a claim.” - Corpus Iuris Civilis, Digesta 16.2.1

Compos

Compos mentis: "In the full possession of my mental powers" - is often used jokingly today.

Concedo

Concedo nulli.: “I don't give way to anyone.” - the motto of the humanist Erasmus von Rotterdam , who was of the opinion that the body must give way to death, but it does not conquer spirit and fame.

Conceptio

Conceptio immaculata: “ Immaculate Conception ” - During Advent, nine months before the feast of the birth of Mary (September 8th), the Roman Catholic Church celebrates a feast on December 8th, which celebrates the Immaculate Conception of Mary. The full title of the feast is: "Solemnity of the Virgin and Mother of God Conceived without original sin".

Conceptus

Conceptus pro iam nato habetur.: “A recipient is treated as if he had already been born.” - The child that has already been conceived but is still unborn is called nasciturus pro iam nato habetur . In German law, the nasciturus is (according to prevailing opinion) the bearer of basic rights. For example, the nasciturus can be heir if he was already conceived at the time of the inheritance.

Concilio

Manchester City Council coat of arms

Concilio and laboratories.: “With advice and action.” - Motto of the City of Manchester

Concordia

Concordia cum veritate: “Concord with Truth” - the motto of the University of Waterloo

Holsten Gate with the inscription "Concordia domi, foris pax"

Concordia domi, foris pax: "Harmony within, peace outside" - inscription on the Holsten Gate in Lübeck . The original inscription read:; "Pulchra res est pax foris et domi concordia - MDLXXXV"; "Peace outside and harmony inside - 1585"

Concordia firmat vires.: "Unity strengthens strength." - the motto on older Basel coins

Concordia fulciuntur opes etiam exiguae.: “Even small forces become strong through unity.” - Erasmus of Rotterdam: Adagia 2763

Concordia, industria, integritas

Concordia res parvae crescunt: “Small things grow through harmony.” - motto of the city of Emden according to Sallust: Bellum Iugurthinum 10.6

Concursus

Concursus creditorum: "Convergence (of the believers)"

Concursus Dei: "With the help of God" - According to René Descartes , it enables the two separate substances body and soul to interact.

Condemno

Condemno. (C.): "I judge." - The letter C on the voting board stood for the conviction of a delinquent. Cicero: Pro Milone 15

Condicio

Condicio Iacobaea (conditio Jacobaea): "The Jacobean reservation."; The expression refers to the epistle of James , which says: “pro eo ut dicatis: Si Dominus voluerit; et: si vixerimus, faciemus hoc aut illud. "(" You should rather say: If the Lord wants it, we will still live and do this or that. ")

Condicio illicita habetur pro non adiecta.: "A prohibited condition is considered not to have been added."

Condicio sine qua non: "Condition without which not ..." - an indispensable requirement

Condiciones

Condiciones quaelibet odiosae, maxim contra matrimonium et commercium.: "Conditions of any kind offend, especially against marriage and trade." - What are meant are restrictive conditions.

Confessio

Confessio Augustana: “Augsburg Confession” - Evangelical Lutheran confession by the humanist Philipp Melanchthon

Confessio est non probatio.: "A confession is not proof."; "Confessio est regina probationum."; "A confession is the queen of evidence."

Confiteor

Confiteor .: “I confess.” - Part of the step prayer which the priest prayed alternately with the acolyte or the congregation at the beginning of the mass. It starts with the following words:

Confiteor Deo omnipotenti
et vobis, fratres,
quia peccavi
nimis cogitatione, verbo, opere et omissione:
mea culpa, mea culpa,
mea maxima culpa.

I confess to God Almighty
and to all
my brothers and sisters that I have neglected good and done bad.
I have sinned in thought, word, and deed -
through my guilt, through my guilt,
through my great guilt.

Confiteor, laudant illa, sed ista legunt.: "I admit, you praise this one, you read this one."

Quote from the writings of the poet Martial , which translates somewhat more freely means:

"Yes, they praise you, but they like to read me."

With these words Martial mocked the poet Flaccus .

Confoederatio

Helvetia on the 2-franc piece

Confoederatio Helvetica (CH): "Helvetic Confederation" = Swiss Confederation - the official name of Switzerland ; hence “CH” for your ISO country code and your top-level domain . The name refers to the ancient Celtic tribe of the Helvetii , who settled in the Swiss Plateau and in parts of southern Germany. The memory of this people remained in the collective memory of the intellectual elite of Switzerland due to their special role in the reports of Julius Caesar . When Switzerland was reconstituted as a confederation in 1803, the name “Swiss Confederation” was used in order to differentiate itself from the unstable and centralized Helvetic Republic . Only in the Latin form of the state name was the term "Helvetia" retained.

Confusion

Confusio linguarum: “Confusion of Languages” - Biblical history of the Babylonian confusion of languages , according to which the diversity of languages is a divine punishment on all humanity

Confusion

Confusione extinguitur obligatio.: "The legal relationship expires through association." - Digesta (34.3.21)

Coniunctivus

Coniunctivus obliquus: "Subjunctive of inner dependency"

Consecutio

Consecutio temporum: "Sequence of times" - When it comes down to the chronological order in which the various events took place, for example to clarify questions of guilt. Regulation of the use of tenses between main and subordinate clauses

Consilio

Consilio, non impetu: “With deliberation, not with force” - the motto of the Scottish clan Agnew

Consilium

Consilium abeundi: "The advice to leave" - expulsion or expulsion from school

Constanter

Constant continet orbem.

Constanter et sincere.: "Persistent and sincere" - Frederick the Great's motto

Constitutio

Constitutio Criminalis Carolina: “Carolinian order” - Embarrassing court order, which was enacted in 1532 under Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Regensburg

Constitutiones

Constitutiones tantum extendi ad futura.: “Ordinances only relate to the future.” - Damasus : Regulae canonicae 19

Consuetudo

Consuetudo est optima legum interpres.: “Custom is the best interpreter of the law.” - Codex iuris canonici , Can. 27

Consuetudo (quasi) altera natura.: "Habit is (as it were) the second nature of man." - Cicero: De finibus bonorum et malorum 5.74

Consummatum

Consummatum est: “It is finished” - In the Vulgate , Jn 19:30, the last words of Jesus on the cross. In the original Greek text it says “ Τετέλεσται. "( Tetelestai .)

Contentus

Contentus paucis lectoribus: “Satisfied with a few readers” - quote from the works of the poet Horace

Contra

Contra impudentem stulta est nimia ingenuitas.: “Too much magnanimity is stupid with the insolent.” - Publilius Syrus: Sententiae 107

Contra naturam est torquere corpus suum.: “It is against nature to torment one's body.” - Seneca: Epistulae morales 5.4

Contra receptam opinionem: "Against the prevailing opinion"

Contra sextum: "Against the sixth" - Against the sixth of the Ten Commandments : "You shall not commit adultery."

Contra spem in spem: “In hope against all hope”; In the standard translation : “Against all hope, full of hope” - Paul : Romans 4:18.

Contra torrentem: "Against the Current"

Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis; sermo datur cunctis, animi sapientia paucis.: “Do not argue against verbose words with words! Speech is given to everyone, the wisdom of the spirit to a few. ”- Quotation from the Disticha Catonis; The beginning is also used separately: "Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis!"

Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis.: From the medieval medical teaching poem Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (48,2).; “There is no cure for the power of death in the gardens.” - There is no herb against death.

Contra vim non valet ius.: "The law is powerless against violence."

Contra votum: “Against wish and will” - Apuleius : Metamorphoses 11.28

Contradictio

Contradictio in adiecto: “Contradiction in the addition” - In traditional logic a contradicting concept formation in which a noun is assigned an attribute that is logically incompatible with it; z. B. "wooden iron", "black mold"

Contradictio per se: "A contradiction in itself"

Contraria

Contraria non contradictoria, sed complementa sunt.

"Opposites do not contradict each other, they complement each other."

Motto of Niels Bohr , the founder of the quantum theory of the atom, about his principle of complementarity .

Contrariis

Contrariis rerum aeternitas constat.: “Eternity is based on opposites.” - Seneca: Epistulae morales 107.8

Contumax

Contumax confitetur.: “The defaulting party says yes.” - Legal term. Anyone who misses a statutory appointment is treated as if he acknowledges the concerns of the other party.

Contumax non appellat.: “The defaulting party does not appeal.” - Legal term

Conturbare

Conturbare animam potis est, quicumque adoritur.: "Those who attack can cause confusion." - Attack is the best defense.

Conturbat

Conturbat audientem, quod frequenter dicitur.: "What is repeated often drives the listener crazy."

Conversio

Conversio Participatio Communio in Christ.: “Repentance, participation, fellowship in Christ.” - Auxiliary Bishop Leo Schwarz's motto .

Cooperatores

Cooperatores veritatis: “Co-worker of truth” - the emblem of Pope Josef Ratzinger as bishop and cardinal (( 3 Joh 8 EU )).

Copia

Copia ciborum subtilitas animi impeditur.: “The abundance of food prevents clear thoughts.” - Quote from the philosopher Seneca , which corresponds to the late Latin saying “Plenus venter non studet libenter” ( “A full stomach doesn't like studying” )

Cor

Cor ad altare: “The heart to the altar” - a recommendation for pastors, how they should turn from the congregation to the altar and vice versa: a turn to the left when turning from the congregation to the altar, a turn to the right when turning from the altar to the congregation

Cor ad cor loquitur

Tombstone of the poet Shelley

Cor cordium: “Heart of Hearts” - inscription on the urn of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley - Protestant Cemetery (Rome) . This is also the title of a sonnet by Algernon Charles Swinburne that begins with the words "O heart of hearts".

Cor corpusque: "Heart and body" - soul and body ( Plautus , Miles Gloriosus , 617)

Cor plumbeum: "Leaden Heart" - An unfeeling heart

Cor primum vivens et ultimum moriens.: “The heart is the first that lives and the last that dies.” - See also primum movens .

Coram

Coram notario et testibus: "Before notary and witnesses"

Coram populo: "In the presence of the people"

Coram publico: “Public” - See also: Coramage

Coram rege sua de paupertate tacentes plus poscente ferent.: “Whoever hides his poverty from his master will receive more than he who begs.” - Horace

Coram uno aliquid dictum ridemus, coram pluribus indignamur.: "What is said in private makes us laugh, what is said in front of several angry."

Corpus

Large and small hosts

Corpus Christi: “Body of Christ” - The body of Christ, which, according to the doctrine of transubstantiation, is present in the host . Also Corpus Christi Day . Corpus Christi is also the name of a city in Texas .

corpus delicti: "Object of the crime" - E.g. the weapon with which a perpetrator can be convicted of a crime

Corpus vile: “Worthless body” - used as an empty phrase to make it clear that an object, possibly also a living being, is treated so inferiorly that it is only used as a test object.

Corrige

Corrige praeteritum, praesens rege, discerne futurum.: "Correct the past, master the present, recognize the future!" - saying on sundials

Corruptio

Corruptio optimi pessima.: "The corruption of the best is the worst."

Corruptissima

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.: “When a state is most corrupt, most laws exist.” Tacitus , Annals 3:27.

Corvus

Corvus corvo negridinem obiecit.: "A raven throws the (other) raven's blackness."; Corresponds to the German idiom "If you sit in a glass house yourself, you shouldn't throw stones."; or the biblical “ You see the splinter in your brother's eye, but not the beam in front of your own. "

Crashes

Cras, cras, semper cras. At sic elabitur aetas.: “Tomorrow, tomorrow, always tomorrow. And so the time goes by. "- Compare the German proverb" Tomorrow, tomorrow, just not today, all lazy people say. "

Cras legam.: “Tomorrow I will read it.” - When Julius Caesar was given a warning on the day of his murder, he is said to have carelessly put it away with these words.

Creatio

Creatio continua: “Continuous creation” - ceaseless creation as opposed to the one-time act of creation

Creatio ex nihilo: "Creation from nothing" - name for the divine act of creating the world

Crede

Crede experto.

Credits

Credite, mentiri non didicere ferae!: "Believe (it): Wild animals have not learned to lie." - From the works of the poet Martial

Credite posteri.: “Believe it, you later ones!” - From the works of the poet Horace

Creed

Credo, ergo sum.: "I think therefore I am."

Credo, quia absurdum.: "I believe (it) because it is nonsensical."; An apocryphal accentuation of a passage from Tertullian's work de carne Christi ( Of the flesh of Christ ) (5.4): “Et mortuus est Dei Filius; prorsus credibile, quia ineptum est ... "(" And the Son of God died; that is something absolutely credible because it is nonsense. "); Means that something so absurd would never have been believed if the disciples had not experienced it themselves.

Credo, quia impossibile.: "I believe (it) because it is impossible."

Credo, ut intelligam .: "I believe to realize." - Anselm of Canterbury

Credula

Credula res amor est.: “A gullible thing is love.” - From the works of the poet Ovid

Crescas

Crescas in mille millia!: "May you grow a thousand times a thousand years!"

Crescite

Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.: “The love for money increases the more money itself increases.” - Quote from the works of the poet Juvenal

Crescit eundo.: “It grows as it goes.” - Quote from the works of the poet Lucretius , today the motto of the US state of New Mexico

Crescit sub pondere virtus.: "Virtue grows under stress."

Crescite

Crescite et multiplicamini.: “Grow and multiply!” - Be fruitful and multiply! Quotation from the 1st book of Moses (1:28)

Crescunt

Crescunt anni, decrescunt vires.: "The years are increasing, the forces are decreasing."

Creta

Creta notaries: "Make notes with chalk" - approve something

Cretenses

Cretenses semper mendaces, malae bestiae, ventres pigri.: "The Cretans are always liars, bad animals, lazy bellies." - Quote from the letter to Titus of the Apostle Paul in the Vulgate , which takes up the paradox of Epimenides : "All Cretans are liars." (In the original Greek text: Κρῆτες ἀεὶ ψεῦσται . )

Criming

Crimen et poena.: "Crime and Punishment."

Crocodili

Crocodili lacrimae: “ Crocodile tears ” - Pliny the Elder assumed in his historia naturalis that the crocodiles wept after their victims, that is, they feigned mourning for their prey.

Crucifige

Crucifige!

“On the cross with him!” - words that according to the Gospel according to Mark 15:14 the crowd called out when Pontius Pilate asked whether he should let Jesus go.

Crux

Crux Christi nostra salus.: "Christ's cross is our salvation."

Motto of Frederick the Wise of Saxony

Crux mihi ancora.: "The cross is an anchor to me."

Cucullus

Cucullus non facit monachum.: "A hood doesn't make a monk."

Cui

Cui bono ?: “Good for whom?” - maxim according to which you can recognize who is responsible for an unpleasant event by the fact that he is taking advantage of it. The censor Lucius Cassius wanted in 125 BC. According to Cicero (speech for Roscius Amerinus 86 and speech for Milo 32) with this saying that one should ask about the beneficiary of the crime during investigations.

Cui honorem, honorem: "Honor where honor is due." (Paulus)

Cui prodest?: “Who is it good for?” - Abbreviated quote from Seneca , Medea 500 f .: “cui prodest scelus, is fecit” (“Whoever benefits from the crime has committed it”).

Cuius

Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum.: "Whoever owns the land owns it up to heaven."

Cuius regio, eius religio: "Whose country, whose religion" - The unification of the Augsburg Religious Peace of 1555 ; the sovereign determines the denomination of his subjects.

Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis perseverare in errore.: "Everyone can be wrong, but only a fool remains in error." - Cicero , "Orationes Philippicae" (The Philippine Speeches) 12.5)

Culpa

Culpa in contrahendo: “Fault when entering into a contract” - term from jurisprudence, often also abbreviated cic, denotes the culpable breach of obligations from a pre-contractual obligation

Culpa in eligendo: "Negligence in the selection" - in the selection of employees

Culpa lata: "Big debt" - legal term for gross negligence

Culpa levis: "Small debt" - Legal term for slight negligence

Cum

Cum annexis: "With appendix", "plus appendix", "plus accessories", "and the related questions" - often abbreviated c. a.

Cum caput aegrotat, corpus simul omne laborat.: “When the head is sick, the whole body suffers at the same time.” Latin saying from the Middle Ages.

Cum correctione (c. C.): “With correction” - used in ophthalmology when visual acuity is performed with optical correction such as glasses or contact lenses.

Cum deodorant: "With God"

Cum Deus calculat, fit mundus.: "When God counts, a world arises."

Cum gladiis et fustibus: "With swords and clubs" - From the Vulgate ( Gospel of Matthew 26 and Gospel of Luke 22).

Cum gladio and sale.: “With sword and salt.” - the motto of a well-paid mercenary

Cum grano salis: "With a grain of salt" - Also: "with a little critical mind", as an indication that the message should not be taken literally.

Cum grege non gradior.

Cum hoc, ergo propter hoc: “Together with that, therefore because of that” - a logical fallacy

Cum ira et studio

Cum laude: "With Praise" - A (medium) grade for an academic examination

Cum sciencia caritas: "Charity with Science" - the motto of the English Royal College of General Practitioners

Cum tacent, clamant: “By being silent, they shout out loud.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero , In Catilinam I, 8, 21

Cum tempore (ct): "With time" - In the student-academic phrase or academic time , which fixes the official start of an event at a certain time, but allows the participants a certain period (usually 15 minutes) until the actual start (example: 10.00 ct = 10:15)

Cur

Cur impia nupsi, si miserum factura fui?: "Why did I marry unscrupulous people if I should make you unhappy?" - Lucan (Pharsalia 8.96 f.); Answer from Cornelia to her wife Pompey shortly before her suicide. Quoted by Peter Abelard when he asked Heloisa to go to the monastery.

Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto?: "Why should man die whose garden sage grows?" - From the medieval medical didactic poem Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum ( Instructions from Salerno for health , a compilation of health rules from the school of Salerno in hexameters ), No. 48.1 ( De salvia / About the sage ).; The answer is given in the following sentence: Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis ( There are no herbs in the gardens against the violence of death ). Which is exactly what the German proverb expresses: There is no herb against death .

Cura

Cura in eligendo: "Care in the selection" - liability for auxiliary persons
Cura posterior: "A Later Concern" - Secondary Concern
Cura, ut valeas!: Make sure you stay healthy.

Curriculum

Curriculum vitae: "Curriculum Vitae" - The "Curriculum vitae" or "Vitae cursus" lists the most important data of a person. In English, the abbreviation CV is common.

Custodi

Custodi civitatem Domine: “Guard the City, Lord!” - Coat of Arms of the City of Westminster

Individual evidence

↑ Juvenal, Satires 13.249.
↑ Bertolt Brecht, Lion Feuchtwanger , Werner Hecht: Bertolt Brecht: Leben und Werk im Bild , G. Kiepenheuer, 1981, p. 275
↑ Gerhard Härle: Reinheit der Sprach, des Herzens und des Leibes: On the history of the impact of the rhetorical term puritas in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment , Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996, p. 93
↑ Erasmus von Rotterdam : Selected Writings , Volume 7. Scientific Book Society, 1972
↑ Attempt at a metrically accurate transfer
↑ E.g. by Quintilian in Institutio oratoria 11,1,23 and Pseudo- Sallust in Invectiva in Ciceronem ( invective against Cicero) 6
↑ Diogenes Laertios , On the Lives and Teachings of Famous Philosophers 6,63
↑ 4.15
↑ Standard translation of the Holy Scriptures
↑ Digesta 43.24.22

[1] Juvenal, Satires 13.249.

[2] Bertolt Brecht, Lion Feuchtwanger , Werner Hecht: Bertolt Brecht: Leben und Werk im Bild , G. Kiepenheuer, 1981, p. 275

[3] Gerhard Härle: Reinheit der Sprach, des Herzens und des Leibes: On the history of the impact of the rhetorical term puritas in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment , Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996, p. 93

[4] Erasmus von Rotterdam : Selected Writings , Volume 7. Scientific Book Society, 1972

[5] Attempt at a metrically accurate transfer

[6] E.g. by Quintilian in Institutio oratoria 11,1,23 and Pseudo- Sallust in Invectiva in Ciceronem ( invective against Cicero) 6

[7] Diogenes Laertios , On the Lives and Teachings of Famous Philosophers 6,63

[8] 4.15

[9] Standard translation of the Holy Scriptures

[10] Digesta 43.24.22