Because you weren't going into botany, the priesth...  ...nufacturing, you thought you were safe to dismiss Latin as a dead language. Obviously, you didn't graduat...  ...nguage. Obviously, you didn't graduate cum laude. Latin is about as dead as Elvis (who, by the way, made...  ...ng to impress your Catholic in...

"Why Latin ? That's not a practical language to study. Choose...  ...ent one." Oh, those were foolish words. Sure, the Latin option at the Vatican's ATMs disappeared a year a...

Latin is a dead language, as dead as it can be. It kill...  ...quired that all new plant species be described in Latin . This move breaks with a tradition that botanists...  ...al tree called Cordia koemarae, he had to write a Latin description that ran to 100 words and included...

National Geographic shows us a 330-year-old book t...  ...l zombies or vampires. De Masticatione Mortuorum, Latin for "The Chewing Dead", discusses the customs of...

Good advice, right? Because you wouldn't want...  ...the classics, often gets requests for English to Latin translation by people who want to get tattoos. H...

Sander van Heukelom combines typographic design, g...  ...wood). This one above, Quod dubitas, ne feceris - Latin for "when you doubt, do not act" - is p...

Why do you need these Latin phrases? Well, like Latin teachers always say, Latin lives on in plenty of English words and phrases....  ...phrases. But mostly, it's worth learning a bit of Latin because omnia dicta fortiori, si dicta...

The Dilemma: You're reading a document that'...  ...ocument that's riddled with needless, pretentious Latin abbreviations (a legal brief, e.g., or mental_flo...  ...s, i.e., this book), but your year of high school Latin has been obscured by the fog of memory.People You...  ...y employing Valley Girl speak. Wher...