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Cibus sanus — healthy food

WEBI think you are right that sanus more correctly describes a healthy state, whereas saluber/salubris seems to be preferred to describe those things which bestow …

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How to say "Born to Heal" in Latin

WEBnascuntur is the third person plural, so the phrase would be in the sense of an outsider saying " [they are] born to heal". If you want something more involved, like " [we are] …

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How do you say ‘You will heal’ in Latin

WEBCelsus (c. 25 BC – c. 50 AD) often uses the intransitive verb sanescere in his De Medicina to express the non-causative change of state meaning.. Insanientes sub …

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How do you say "good morning" in Latin

WEBSomehow connected with this is the fact that there's no noun corresponding to our "morning" in Latin: māne is more of an adverb "early, in the morning, to-morrow", …

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How to say "everything will be good" in Latin

WEBAnother simple expression, and a one I would suggest, is omnia bene erunt, "all (things) will be well". This is good Latin and difficult to misinterpret; omne bene …

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What is the correct translation of "Choose life" in Latin

WEB5. Following the common theme and story with my tattoos, I would like to do another one saying "I choose life" in Latin. What I found is that a possible translation …

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What's the difference between aster, stella, sidus and astrum in …

WEBAster and astrum are borrowings from Greek ἀστήρ and ἄστρον. The former is also a name given to e.g. a plant and some type of clay, but you can find it used for …

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How did "doctor" come to mean "physician" in English

WEBOwen Barfield, in History in English Words, p. 100, suggests that the character of Ancient Roman society, with its emphasis on physicality rather than …

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To what extent are Koine and modern Greek mutually intelligible

WEBQuite difficult. The pronunciation has changed significantly from Koine to Modern Greek, and anecdotally, my Modern-Greek-speaking friends and I usually have …

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Did any Ancient Greek words have intervocalic /h/

WEB8. Ancient Greek (some dialects at least) had a phoneme /h/, written with a rough breathing mark on vowels. Did this phoneme ever occur between two vowels, or …

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Is there a Latin proverb stating you should take responsibility for

WEBTitle sums it up. There's a (in my view, quite liberal) ideology that people have to take responsibility for their actions (if in their right minds, that is), and just take the …

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How to say "Get well soon!"

WEBThe usual term is convalescere. You can say mox sanesce for sure, but it sounds a bit like an overly literal translation, does it not? I would prefer something like: …

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Generic toast in classical Latin

WEBNow, an unsourced states that there are two words for a toast in Latin, namely prosit and the verb propino. The good news is that propino is well attested and …

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How would you say "This degree costed me my mental health." in …

WEBWhen asked "Do you regret being an engineer?", many engineers, including myself, respond with something like: "This degree costed me my mental health.I was …

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Etymology of ambulance

WEB8. For a while I have been curious about the etymology of the English word 'ambulance' since it seems to be derived from the Latin word 'ambulare' (to walk). This …

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