"Which Latin phrase, that translates literally as ""in a blazing wrong"", means 'caught red-handed'?"
"(), is used to refer to citizen's arrest, and is listed under Section 213 of the Code of Criminal Procedure as such. Aside from the legal meaning, the Latin term is often used colloquially as a dysphemism for someone's being caught in the midst of sexual activity. In flagrante delicto In flagrante delicto (Latin: ""in blazing offence""), or simply in flagrante, a legal term, indicates that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offence (compare ). The colloquial ""caught "" or ""caught rapid"" are English equivalents. The phrase combines the present active participle ""flagrāns"" (flaming or"
"Throughout history, being left-handed was considered negative. The Latin adjective ""sinister"" means ""left"" as well as ""unlucky"", and this double meaning survives in European derivatives of Latin, including the English word ""sinister"" (only when referring to the bearer's left of a coat of arms). There are many negative connotations associated with the phrase ""left-handed"": clumsy, awkward, unlucky, insincere, sinister, malicious, and so on. A ""left-handed compliment"" is considered one that is unflattering or dismissive in meaning. In French, ""gauche"" means both ""left"" and ""awkward"" or ""clumsy"", while ""droit(e)"" (cognate to English ""direct"" and related to ""adroit"") means both ""right"" and"
"well. In some Spanish-speaking countries, to do something ""por izquierda"" means to engage in corrupt conduct or employ illegitimate means, whereas ""por derecha"" or ""a derechas"" means to do it the right (legitimate) way. Also, in Spanish, to tell someone ""Eres tan zurdo"" means that they are being clumsy, though the literal meaning is ""You're so lefty."" In Portuguese, the most common word for left-handed person, ""canhoto"", was once used to identify the devil, and ""canhestro"", a related word, means ""clumsy"". In Romanian ""drept/dreaptă"" (coming from Latin ""directus"") means both ""right"" and ""straight"". The word for ""left"" is ""stâng/stângă"" coming"
"Latin word ""sinestra"", meaning ""sinister"" or also ""left"" and ""left handed"", and commonly associated to wickedness, Sinestro has been often depicted in the comic books as left handed. This trait has also been faithfully portrayed in other media, such as the animated film """" and the live-action film ""Green Lantern"". In the final issue of DC Comics' 2006-07 year-long weekly series, ""52"" #52, it was revealed that a ""Multiverse"" system of 52 parallel universes, with each Earth being a different take on established DC Comics characters as featured in the mainstream continuity (designated as ""New Earth"") had come into existence."
"Felix culpa Felix culpa is a Latin phrase that comes from the words ""felix,"" meaning ""happy,"" ""lucky,"" or ""blessed"" and ""culpa,"" meaning ""fault"" or ""fall"". In the Catholic tradition, the phrase is most often translated ""happy fault,"" as in the Catholic Exsultet. Other translations include ""blessed fall"" or ""fortunate fall"". As a theological concept, ""felix culpa"" is a way of understanding the Fall as having positive outcomes, such as the redemption of humankind through the Resurrection. The concept is paradoxical in nature as it looks at the fortunate consequences of an unfortunate event, which would never have been possible without"
"Roman toga had only one pocket, located on the left side. The right hand has historically been associated with skill: the Latin word for right-handed is ""dexter"", as in ""dexterity"", meaning manual skill. Even the word ""ambidexterity"" reflects the bias. Its intended meaning is ""skillful on both sides"". However, since it keeps the Latin root ""dexter"", which means ""right"", it ends up conveying the idea of being ""right-handed on both sides"". This bias is also apparent in the lesser-known antonym ""ambisinistrous"", which means ""left-handed [""i.e."", clumsy] on both sides"". In more technical contexts, ""sinistral"" may be used in place of"
"evils. He lost six of his companions, but if he had gone near Charybdis all would be doomed. Because of such stories, having to navigate between the two hazards eventually entered idiomatic use. Another equivalent English seafaring phrase is ""Between a rock and a hard place"". The Latin line ""incidit in scyllam cupiens vitare charybdim"" (""he runs into Scylla, wishing to avoid Charybdis"") had earlier become proverbial, with a meaning much the same as jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Erasmus recorded it as an ancient proverb in his ""Adagia"", although the earliest known instance is in the"
"from Latin ""stancus"" (= ""stanticus"") meaning ""tired"". In German, ""recht"" means ""right"" in both the adjectival sense (correct) and the nominal (legal entitlement). The word for ""left"" is ""links"", and is closely related to both ""link"" (underhand, questionable), and ""linkisch"" (clumsy). The Dutch words for ""left"" (""links, linker"") and ""right"" (""recht, rechts, rechter"") have much the same meanings and connotations as in English. The adjective ""link"" means ""cunning, shifty"" or ""risky"". A ""linkerd"" is a ""crafty devil"". To look at someone over the left shoulder (""iemand over de linkerschouder aanzien"") is to regard him or her as insignificant. In Irish,"
"equivalent English seafaring phrase is, ""Between a rock and a hard place"". The Latin line ""incidit in scyllam cupiens vitare charybdim"" (he runs into Scylla, wishing to avoid Charybdis) had earlier become proverbial, with a meaning much the same as jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Erasmus recorded it as an ancient proverb in his ""Adagia"", although the earliest known instance is in the ""Alexandreis"", a 12th-century Latin epic poem by Walter of Châtillon. The myth was given an allegorical interpretation by the French poet Barthélemy Aneau in his emblem book ""Picta Poesis"" (1552). There one is advised"
"Roman navy has besieged Syracuse, a Greek ally of Carthage, and Fulvius is now participating in the fighting. The Romans, however, are frustrated by a giant array of mirrors, producing a heat ray, which is deployed by the great inventor Archimedes to set fire to the ships' sails. The Roman fleet is spectacularly destroyed. Fulvius, still bearing the ring Croessa had given him, is cast adrift and soon rescued. Although his rescuers rob the unconscious Fulvius, one of them recognizes the ring on his finger, and he is carried to Batto's house, which has been rebuilt. The parents are overjoyed"
"found in the no man's land. To be ""caught in the crossfire"" is an expression that often refers to unintended casualties (bystanders, etc.) who were killed or wounded by being exposed to the gunfire of a battle or gun fight, such as in a position to be hit by bullets of either side. The phrase has come to mean any injury, damage or harm (physical or otherwise) caused to a third party due to the action of belligerents (collateral damage). Crossfire A crossfire (also known as interlocking fire) is a military term for the siting of weapons (often automatic weapons"
"linke Hände haben"""", the Bulgarian expression """"dve levi ratse"""", French """"avoir deux mains gauches"""", Hungarian ""kétbalkezes"" and Czech """"Mít obě ruce levé"""" all mean ""to have two left hands""—that one is clumsy or is a very poor handyman; the English equivalent is ""to be all thumbs"". Moreover, the German idiom """"mit dem linken Fuß aufgestanden sein"""", the Spanish expression """"levantarse con el pie izquierdo"""", the French expression """"s'être levé du pied gauche"""" and the Hungarian expression """"bal lábbal kelt fel"""" (literally, to get up with the left foot) mean to have a bad day and do everything wrong or unsuccessfully,"
"on the base reads ""Constantine by this sign conquer"". This phrase is a translation of the latin ""in hoc signo vinces""; a reference to a passage from the historian Eusebius of Caesaria who recounts alleged that Constantine was marching with his army and looked up to the sun and saw a cross of light above it, and with it the Greek words ""(ἐν) τούτῳ νίκα"" (""In this, conquer""). The statue's sword was stolen in September 2016. A homeless man, John Flanagan, was prosecuted for the damage - the sword had been kicked from the statue and then brandished by Flanagan"
"In pari delicto In pari delicto (potior/melior est conditio possidentis), Latin for ""in equal fault (better is the condition of the possessor)"", is a legal term used to indicate that two persons or entities are equally at fault, whether the malfeasance in question is a crime or tort. The phrase is most commonly used by courts when relief is being denied to both parties in a civil action because of wrongdoing by both parties. The phrase means, in essence, that since both parties are equally at fault, the court will not involve itself in resolving one side's claim over the"
"be ground” or “should be ground”. Though, if ""carborere"" had been an actual Latin word meaning ""to grind down"", the phrase would actually be correct Latin for ""It must not be ground down by the outlaws"". Without carborere, ""illegitimi non carborundum"" could mean “the unlawful are [or have] not silicon carbide”. There are many variants of the phrase, such as ""Illegitimis non carborundum"", ""Noli illegitimi carborundum"" and ""Nil illegitimi carborundum"", all of them Dog Latin. The word ""bastard"" in Latin is ""spurius"" or, much less commonly, ""nothus""., though ""bastards"" is often used in English as a generic derogatory term, not"
"In hoc signo vinces ""In hoc signo vinces"" (; ) is a Latin phrase meaning ""In this sign you will conquer"", often also rendered in early modern English as ""In this sign thou shalt conquer"". It is a translation, or rendering, of the Greek phrase """", transliterated as """"en toútōi níka"""" (, ), literally meaning ""in this, conquer"". Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius was an early Christian author (c. 240 – c. 320) who became an advisor to the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine I (and tutor to his son), guiding the Emperor's religious policy as it developed during his reign."
"wonderful"" than the goodness in creation. He exclaims: O goodness infinite, Goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good; more wonderful Than that which creation first brought forth Light out of Darkness! [...] Felix culpa Felix culpa is a Latin phrase that comes from the words ""felix,"" meaning ""happy,"" ""lucky,"" or ""blessed"" and ""culpa,"" meaning ""fault"" or ""fall"". In the Catholic tradition, the phrase is most often translated ""happy fault,"" as in the Catholic Exsultet. Other translations include ""blessed fall"" or ""fortunate fall"". As a theological concept, ""felix culpa"" is a way of"
"""straight"", as well as ""law"" and the legal sense of ""right"". The name ""Dexter"" derives from the Latin for ""right"", as does the word ""dexterity"" meaning manual skill. As these are all very old words, they would tend to support theories indicating that the predominance of right-handedness is an extremely old phenomenon. Black magic is sometimes referred to as the ""left-hand path"". Until very recently in Taiwan (and still in Mainland China, Japan and both North and South Korea), left-handed people were strongly encouraged to switch to being right-handed, or at least switch to writing with the right hand. Due"
"been in use; Edmond Malone claimed that it appeared in a work that has since been lost—Richard Eedes's Latin play ""Caesar Interfectus"" of 1582. The phrase had also occurred in another play by Shakespeare, ""The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixth, with the Whole Contention betweene the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke"" of 1595, which is the earliest printed version of ""Henry VI, Part 3"". It has been argued that the phrase can be interpreted as a curse or warning. One theory states that the historic Caesar adapted the words"
"Duchy of Savoy, the Knights Hospitaller in Malta, and others.) Though taken down with fever, Cervantes refused to stay below; he demanded to take part in the battle, saying he would rather die for his God and king than keep under cover. He fought and received three gunshot wounds—two in the chest and one which rendered his left arm useless. In ""Journey to Parnassus"" he was to say that he ""had lost the movement of the left hand for the glory of the right"" (referring to the success of his writing ""Don Quixote""). Cervantes recounted his conduct in the battle"
"in Latin) studying prospective construction sites or grave sites ""with reference to the head and the tail and the feet of the particular dragons which are supposed to dwell beneath that spot"". As a Catholic missionary, Ricci strongly criticized the ""recondite science"" of geomancy along with astrology as yet another ""superstitio absurdissima"" of the heathens: ""What could be more absurd than their imagining that the safety of a family, honors, and their entire existence must depend upon such trifles as a door being opened from one side or another, as rain falling into a courtyard from the right or from"
"the stake. Norma announces that she too has sinned, by marrying Pollio, and must also be executed. Oroveso is outraged that she has married a Roman and clamours for her immediate death. The other druidesses at once confess that they have all married Romans secretly. Oroveso's lost visiting-card case is found, and he discovers that he is, in fact, Julius Caesar. He decrees that although the druid law prescribes fire as the punishment for all the druidesses and their spouses, ""red fire"" – a theatrical lighting effect – will suffice. The red lighting is shone on the cast and all"
"words in Latin are potentially obscene or subject to obscene punning, and there hints at the word ""landīca"" by quoting an unintentionally obscene utterance made in the Senate: with ""illam dīcam"" echoing the forbidden word. Note that the ""m"" at the end of ""illam"" was pronounced like ""n"" before the following ""d."" The word ""landīca"" is found in Roman graffiti: (""I seek Fulvia's clitoris"") appears on a leaden projectile found at Perugia left over from the Perusine War, while a derivative word is found in Pompeii: (""Euplia (is) loose and has a large clitoris""). It also occurs in ""Priapeia"" 78.5"
"version, Constantine with his army was marching somewhere (Eusebius does not specify the actual location of the event, but it clearly is not in the camp at Rome) when he looked up to the sun and saw a cross of light above it, and with it the Greek words ""Ἐν Τούτῳ Νίκα"". The traditionally employed Latin translation of the Greek is ""in hoc signo vinces""— literally ""In this sign, you will conquer."" However, a direct translation from the original Greek text of Eusebius into English gives the phrase ""By this, conquer!"" At first he was unsure of the meaning of"
"a ""choriambically expanded glyconic"" with the notation ""gl"" (lesser) or ""gl"" (greater). Asclepiads were used in Latin by Horace in thirty-four of his odes, as well as by Catullus in Poem 30, and Seneca. Examples in English verse include parts of Sir Philip Sidney's ""Arcadia"" (""Here wrong's name is unheard, slander a monster is; / Keep thy sprite from abuse, here no abuse doth haunt. / What man grafts in a tree dissimulation?"") and W. H. Auden's ""In Due Season"" (""Springtime, Summer and Fall: days to behold a world""). Asclepiad (poetry) An Asclepiad (Latin: Asclepiadeus) is a line of poetry"
"left hand represents wisdom. In early Roman times, the left side retained a positive connotation, as the Augures proceeded from the eastern side. The negative meaning was subsequently borrowed into Latin from Greek, and ever since in all Roman languages. In Russian, ""levsha"" (lefty, lefthander) became a common noun for skilled craftsman, after the title character from ""The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea"" written in 1881 by Nikolai Leskov. The unfavorable associations and connotations of the use of the left hand among cultures are varied. In some areas, in order to preserve cleanliness where sanitation"
"party is at ""fault"" if they have equal ""right"" to the disputed property, in which case the maxim of law becomes in aequali jure (melior est conditio possidentis). Again the court will not involve itself in the dispute without a superior claim being brought before it. In pari delicto In pari delicto (potior/melior est conditio possidentis), Latin for ""in equal fault (better is the condition of the possessor)"", is a legal term used to indicate that two persons or entities are equally at fault, whether the malfeasance in question is a crime or tort. The phrase is most commonly used"
"is transformed"", which would later be known as the law of conservation of mass. Lavoisier used the experimental fact that some metals gained mass when they burned to support his ideas. Historically, ""flammable"", ""inflammable"" and ""combustible"" meant ""capable of burning"". The word ""inflammable"" came through French from the Latin ""inflammāre"" = ""to set fire to,"" where the Latin preposition ""in-"" means ""in"" as in ""indoctrinate"", rather than ""not"" as in ""invisible"" and ""ineligible"". The word ""inflammable"" may be erroneously thought to mean ""non-flammable"". The erroneous usage of the word ""inflammable"" is a significant safety hazard. Therefore, since the 1950s, efforts"
"Malum in se Malum in se (plural ""mala in se"") is a Latin phrase meaning ""wrong"" or ""evil in itself"". The phrase is used to refer to conduct assessed as sinful or inherently wrong by nature, independent of regulations governing the conduct. It is distinguished from ""malum prohibitum"", which is wrong only because it is prohibited. For example, most human beings believe that murder, rape, and theft are wrong, regardless of whether a law governs such conduct or where the conduct occurs, and is thus recognizably ""malum in se"". In contrast, ""malum prohibitum"" crimes are criminal not because they are"
"that the apes may be simply imitating humans. The Latin phrase ""pollice verso"" is used in the context of gladiatorial combat for a hand gesture used by Ancient Roman crowds to pass judgment on a defeated gladiator. In modern popular culture, it is assumed that ""thumbs down"" was the signal that a defeated gladiator should be condemned to death; ""thumbs up"", that he should be spared. ""Now they give shows of their own. Thumbs up! Thumbs down! And the killers, spare or slay, and then go back to concessions for private privies"" from Juvenal's ""Against the City of Rome"" (ca."
"as well as ""law"" and the legal sense of ""right"", while ""gauche"" means ""left"" and is also a synonym of ""maladroit"", literally ""not right"", meaning ""clumsy"". Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German have similar constructs. The Spanish term ""diestro"" and the Italian term ""destro"" mean both ""right-handed"" and ""skillful"". The contemporary Italian word ""sinistra"" has both meanings of sinister and left (the masculine adjective for sinister being ""sinistro""), and ""maldestro"" means ""clumsy"". The Spanish ""siniestra"" has both, too, although the ""left"" meaning is less common and is usually expressed by ""izquierda"", a Basque word that made its way into Portuguese as"
"is just (""iustum"") and something that is just (""iustum"") because it is commanded (iussum). Malum in se Malum in se (plural ""mala in se"") is a Latin phrase meaning ""wrong"" or ""evil in itself"". The phrase is used to refer to conduct assessed as sinful or inherently wrong by nature, independent of regulations governing the conduct. It is distinguished from ""malum prohibitum"", which is wrong only because it is prohibited. For example, most human beings believe that murder, rape, and theft are wrong, regardless of whether a law governs such conduct or where the conduct occurs, and is thus recognizably"
"grabbed his shoulders and pulled down Caesar's tunic. Caesar then cried to Cimber, ""Why, this is violence!"" (""""Ista quidem vis est!""""). At the same time, Casca produced his dagger and made a glancing thrust at the dictator's neck. Caesar turned around quickly and caught Casca by the arm. According to Plutarch, he said in Latin, ""Casca, you villain, what are you doing?"" Casca, frightened, shouted, ""Help, brother!"" in Greek ("""", """"adelphe, boethei""""). Within moments, the entire group, including Brutus, was striking out at the dictator. Caesar attempted to get away, but, blinded by blood, he tripped and fell; the men"