List of Latin Phrases / O

O

O clemens, o pia, o dulcis virgo Maria.: "O mild, o pious, o sweet Virgin Mary!" - the final verse of the Salve Regina , which is said to go back to St. Bernard of Clairvaux .

O dulce nomen libertatis.: “O sweet name freedom!” - Cicero , In Verrem 2. 5,163.

O fallacem hominum spem!: “O deceptive hope of men!” - Cicero , de oratore 3,7

O felix culpa: "O happy guilt"; The expression belongs in the context of “O certe necessarium Adamae peccatum, quod Christi morte deletum est. O felix culpa quae talem ac tantum meruit habere Redemptorem! ”-“ O truly necessary debt of Adam, which was redeemed by Christ's death! O happy guilt that deserved to have such a great Savior! "; From the Exsultet , a chant from the Roman Catholic Easter Vigil liturgy .; From this the words "felix culpa" ("happy guilt"), the thought that the sinner is in a happier state through forgiveness than before sin.

Carmina Burana: Wheel of Fortune (Rota Fortunae )

O Fortuna.: "O luck!" - initial words from the Carmina Burana (1. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi):

O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.

O Fortuna,
like the moon
you are changeable,
constantly growing
or dwindling;
the shameful life
sometimes hardens it,
sometimes it
playfully spoils the alert mind,
poverty
and power
melts it like ice.

O matre pulchra filia pulchrior!: “Daughter, even more beautiful than her beautiful mother!” - Horace , Oden 1,16,1

O mihi praeteritos referat si Iuppiter annos!: “O Jupiter would bring me back the past years!” - Quote from the Aeneid of Virgil .

O quae mutatio rerum.: "O what a change of things!" - This Latin phrase can be found in the student song O old ladyship :

O old ladyship ,
where have you disappeared to, you will
never return to golden times,
so happy and unbound!
I look around in vain,
I can no longer find your trail.
O ierum, o quae mutatio rerum

O saeculum! O litterae! Iuvat vivere!: “O century! O sciences! It is a pleasure to live! ”- Ulrich Hutten 1518 to Willibald Pirckheimer

O sancta simplicitas. Jan Hus at the stake

O sancta simplicitas.: "O holy simplicity!" - This quote is attributed to Jan Hus , who spoke these words when an eager woman brought wood for his pyre . It is quoted by Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust I. Today this quote is used as an ironic expression of astonishment at stupidity.

O tempora, o mores !: “What times! What customs! ”- Marcus Tullius Cicero , Catilina I, 1, 2.

O Tite, tute, Tati tibi tanta, tyrants, tulisti!: “O Titus Tatius, you yourself, you tyrant, have such a great [scil. Misfortune] drawn! ”- Famous verse by Quintus Ennius , especially for his striking use of the stylistic device alliteration .

If

Whether defectum: "In the absence"

Obit

Obit anus, abit onus.: “The old woman dies, the burden passes” - Arthur Schopenhauer

Oboedientia

Oboedientia et pax: "Obedience and Peace" - This was the motto of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, later Pope John XXIII. , at his episcopal ordination.

Obscuri

Darkman letters

Obscuri viri: "Dark Men" - The letters of the dark men (Epistolae obscurorum virorum) were the most famous satire of German humanism . The occasion was the dispute between the Cologne Dominicans and the Hebrew Johannes Reuchlin over the question of whether Jewish writings should be burned. The work contains the bogus letters from Dominicans, which act like a self-exposure of those involved.

Observa

Observa diem sabbati.: "Observe the Sabbath!" - Sabbath commandment from the Ten Commandments , which reads completely as follows: "Observa diem sabbati, ut sanctifices eum, sicut praecepit tibi Dominus Deus tuus." Lord your God made it a duty. ")

Oculi

Oculi plus vident quam oculus.: "Eyes see more than one eye."

Oculi mei semper ad Dominum.: “My eyes are always on the Lord.” - Psalm 25:15, from which the name “Oculi” for the 3rd Sunday of Lent is derived.

Oculum

Oculum pro oculo et dentem pro dente: “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” - Exodus 21

Oculus

Oculus dexter (OD): "Right eye" - ophthalmological abbreviation

Oculus sinister (OS): "Left eye" - ophthalmological abbreviation

Oculus ultimus: "Last eye" - ophthalmological abbreviation for the remaining eye that can still see well after the loss of sight in the other eye

Oderint

Oderint, dum metuant.: “May they hate me if they only fear me.” - From a tragedy by Lucius Accius , quoted first in Cicero ; later the motto of the emperor Caligula .; In modern times Bismarck's statement about the Prussian-French relationship.

Or not

Or hilarem tristes tristemque iocosi.: “The sad hate the cheerful and the sad the merry.” - Hexameter : Horace, Epistulae 1,18,89.

Odi

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio. Sed fieri sentio et excrucior.: “I hate and love. Why am I doing this you may ask. I dont know. But I feel that it is so and it torments me. ”- Catullus 85.

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.: "I hate the common people and keep them away." - Horace (Carmina 3, 1, 1)

Odium

Odium theologicum: "Theological hatred" - expression for the special form of hatred that arises in theological disputes.

Olet

Olet Lucernam.: “It smells like oil.”: It smells like the oil lamp, like night work.

Oleum

Oleum et operam perdidi.: “I have wasted oil and effort.” - Quote from the comedy Poenulus by the poet Plautus (verse 332); the sentence is spoken there by a prostitute who in vain had herself cleaned and anointed. Cicero transfers the phrase in his letters Ad familiares (7.1) to gladiators, later alluding to the wasted oil of the study lamp.

Olim

Olim meminisse iuvabit.: “One day it will be a pleasure to be remembered.” - Virgil.

Omne

Omne animal post coitum triste (praeter gallum, qui cantat).: “After the union , all living beings are unhappy [except for the rooster that sings (crows)].” - Pseudo-Aristotle , “Problemata physica”, XXX, 1

Omne animal se ipsum diligit.: "Every living being loves itself." - Cicero: "De finibus bonorum et malorum"

Omne ignotum pro magnifico: “Everything unknown is considered great.” - Tacitus , Agricola , 30.; A sentence by the Briton Calgacus from his famous speech against the Romans' claim to rule. - Sherlock Holmes quotes him in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Omne principium grave.: "Every beginning is difficult."

Omne vivum ex ovo.: "Everything living comes from the egg."

Omnes

Omnes eodem cogimur.: “We are all forced to the same place.” - Horace , carmen 2,3,25.; What is meant is: forced into the hereafter .

Omnes una manet nox.: “One night is waiting for us all.” - Horace , carmina 1,28,15.

Omnia

Omnia ad maiorem Dei gloriam.: “Everything for the greater glory of God.” - motto of the Jesuit order

Omnia ad unum.: "Everything (relates) to the one." - formulation by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , who was famous for his monad theory .

Omnia cum deo, nihil sine eo.

Omnia in omnibus est deus : Altar of the St. Johannis church in Glandorf

Omnia in omnibus est deus.

Omnia mea mecum porto .: “I carry all my possessions with me.” - Quotation of the bias of Priene , one of the Seven Wise Men , on his escape from Priene

Omnia munda mundis: “To the pure everything is pure.” - From the letter of the apostle Paul to Titus .

Omnia prius experiri quam armis sapientem decet.: “The wise man should try everything earlier than with arms.” - Terence , Eunuchus 789.

Have omnia tempus.: “Everything has its time.” - Vulgate , Ecclesiastes 3, 1.; With the suffix “Omnia tempus habet” (“Time holds everything”), John Owen turns it into a pentameter.

Omnia venalia Romae.: “Everything (is) for sale in Rome.” - Assessment of King Jugurtha in Sallust's De bello Iugurthino 8, 1.

Omnia vincit amor .: "Everything conquers love." - Virgil , Bucolica 10.69: "Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori." ("Everything conquers love, we too want to give in to love.")

omnibus

Omnibus moriendum est, divitibus pauperibus, summis infimis.: "Everyone must die, the rich and the poor, the highest and the lowest."

Omnibus prodesse

Omnibus unus: "One for all"

Omnis

Omnis amans amens.: "Every lover is mad." - This half-verse ( hexameter or pentameter ) is a Latin play on words .; For Terence, shorter: "" Amantes amentes. "

Omnis cellula a cellula.: "Every cell (comes from) a cell." - Virchow

Omnis homo mendax

Omnium

Omnium enim rerum principia parva sunt.: "Because the beginning of all things is small." - Cicero, De finibus (5.58)

Omnium rerum homo mensura est.: “Man is the measure of all things.” - The so-called Homo-Mensura sentence of Protagoras .

Onus

Onus est honos.: "Burden is dignity."

Onus probandi: "Burden of proof"

Opera

Opera omnia: “All works” - the complete works of an artist

Opera postuma (opera posthuma): "Postponed works" - i.e. those published after the author's death.

Opera

Opere citato (op.cit.): “In the (already) cited work” - Used in academic writings to refer to a passage in a previously mentioned work.

Operibus

Operibus credite et non verbis: "Believe the deeds and not the words."

Ophidia

Ophidia in herba: "Snakes in the Grass" - A hidden danger or an unknown risk. Compare also “ Latet anguis in herba. "

Oportet

Oportet et haereses eat ...: "Partitions are also necessary (so that it becomes clear who is reliable among you)" - The apostle Paul in his 1st letter to the Corinthians 11:19.

opus

Opus Dei: “Work of God” - personal prelature (organizational unit headed by a prelate) of the Roman Catholic Church, which has set itself the goal of promoting a godly life in work and family among lay people through religious education and pastoral support. The full name is:; " Praelatura Sanctae Crucis et Opus Dei "; (" Prelature of the Holy Cross and Work of God ").

Ora

Ora et labora at the Academy House of the Dr. Buhmann School Hanover

Ora et labora: “Pray and work!” - This principle of the Benedictine monasteries reads completely:; " Ora et labora (et lege), Deus adest sine mora. "; “ Pray and work (and read), God is there (or: God helps) without delay. "

Ora pro nobis.: “Pray for us!” - prayer formula in the Catholic Church

Orandum

Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano .: “One should pray that in a healthy body there may be a healthy mind.” - Juvenal , Satires (10,356).

Oratio

Oratio per domo: "Speak for your (own) house" - on your own behalf. It comes from a speech that Marcus Tullius Cicero is said to have given after his return from exile in order to get back his confiscated house.

Orb

Orbis scientiarum: "Circle of Sciences"

Orbis terrarum: "The circle of countries" - the world

Orbis non sufficit: "The world is not enough" - the family motto on the family crest of James Bond ( Agent 007 )

Ordo

Ordo Equestris Sancti Sepulcri Hierosolymitani: " Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem " - The Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and the Order of Malta are the two orders of knights recognized by the Holy See today.

Ordo equitum Teutonicorum: " German Order of Knights ": The German Order has not been a knightly order since 1929, but an ecclesiastical institute of "brothers" - priests and lay brothers - and "sisters".

Ortus

Ortus cuncta suos repetunt matremque requirunt, et redit ad nihilum, quod fuit ante nihil.: “Everything strives back to its origin and seeks the mother, and it returns to nothing that was nothing before.” - Maximianus , Elegie 1,221f. (a distich ).; See also " Mors omnia solvit ... "

Otiosis

Otiosis locus hic non est. Discede morator.: “There is no place here for idlers. Away idlers! ”- Graffito from Pompeii

Otium

Otium cum dignitate: “Leisure with dignity” - dignified retirement. Cicero in his Pro Sestio .

Individual evidence

↑ Cicero, de officiis 97; Philippica 1.34

[1] Cicero, de officiis 97; Philippica 1.34