FROM THE LATIN
Latin words and phrases are sometimes abbreviated and become English words in their own right, often with no obvious connection with Latin:
When a sheriff gathers a "posse", he is using Latin. The word posse comes from the phrase posse comitatus, "power of the county". A county was original the area controlled by a count or companion of the king (comes in Latin)
The word "mob", a disorderly crowd, comes from mobile vulgus, a "fickle (i.e. moveable) crowd.
A slang word for clothes is "togs" from toga.
"Bus" is an abbreviation of omnibus ("for everyone")
PROVERBS AND SAYINGS
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quieti non movere! |
Let sleeping dogs lie. |
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qui tacet consentire videtur |
Silence means consent. |
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de mortuis nil nisi bonum |
Speak no ill of the dead. |
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vox et praeterea nihil |
He’s all mouth. |
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Multae manus opus levius faciunt |
Many hands make light. work. |
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festina lente! |
More haste, less speed. |
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ferre ligna in silvam |
To carry coals to Newcastle. |