LATIN NOTES 81-90 ETYMOLOGY

SEMPER PARATUS Always prepared/ready Motto of US Coast Guard

SI QUAERIS PENINSULAM AMOENAM CIRCUMSPICE If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you Motto of the State of Michigan

SIC Thus I found it thus; used when using a direct quote from text to denote misspellings i.e. Her note said “I left because their (sic) was no one home.”

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS Thus even to tyrants John Wilkes Boothe’s alleged words when killing Lincoln; motto of the State of Virginia

SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI Thus/so passes the glory of the world Everything passes/is transitory; used during the coronation of the Pope

SINE QUA NON Without which not An absolute necessity; indispensable

SUB ROSA Under the rose What’s said in a meeting is confidential; roses suspended above Roman tables to remind guests to keep silent; “what’s said under the rose, stays under the rose”

SUI GENERIS Of its own kind Unique; in a class of its own

SUMMUM BONUM Highest good The supreme good from which all others are derived

TABULA RASA Clean slate Starting over from scratch; newborns are tabula rasa