1. LATIN NOTES 81-90
ETYMOLOGY

2. SEMPER PARATUS
Always prepared/ready
Motto of US Coast Guard

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

4. 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.”

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

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

7. SINE QUA NON
Without which not
An absolute necessity; indispensable

8. 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”

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

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

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