Designing Your Character & Other Handy Things 2

Latin Phrases D

Be suspicious of everything / doubt everything

De oppresso liber
Free from having been oppressed

De profundis
From the depths

De re
About/regarding the matter

Dei sub numine viget
Under God's Spirit she flourishes

Delectation morose
Peevish delight

Delegate potestas non potest delegari
Delegated powers cannot be [further] delegated

Delirant isti Romani
They are mad, those Romans[!]

Deo ac veritati
For God and for truth

Deo confidimus
In God we Trust

Deo domuique
For God and for Home

Deo et Patriae
For God and Country

Deo Gratias
Thanks [be] to God

Deo juvante
With god's help

Deo non fortuna
By God, not fortune/luck

Deo optimo maximo (DOM)
To the best and greatest God

Deo patriae litteris
For God, country, [and] learning

Deo volente
God willing

Descensus in cuniculi cavum
The descent into the cave of the rabbit

Desiderantes meliorem patriam
They desired a better land

Deus caritas est
God is love

Deus ex machina
A god from a machine

Deus lux mea est
God is my light

Deus meumque jus
God and my right

Deus nobis haec otia fecit
God has give us these days of leisure

Deus otiosus
God at leisure

Deus spes nostra
God is our hope

Deus vult
God wills i

Dictatum erat
As previously stated

Dicto simpliciter
[from] a maxim, simply

dictum factum
what is said is done

dictum meum pactum
my word [is] my bond

diem perdidi
I have lost the day

Dies irae
Day of wrath

Dies non juridicum
Day without judiciary

Dirigo
I direct

Dis aliter visum
It seemed otherwise to the gods

Dis minibus sacrum
Sacred to the ghost-gods

Disce aut discede
Learn or depart

Disce quasi semper victurus vive quasi cras moriturus
Learn as if always going to live; live as if tomorrow going to die

Discendo discimus
While teaching we learn

Discere faciendo
Learn by doing

Dislecta membra
Scattered limbs

Ditat Deus
God enriches

Divide et impera
Divide and rule/ "divde and conquer"

Dixi
I have spoken

Do ut des
I give that you may give

Docendo discitur
It is learned by teaching / one learns by teaching

Docendo disco scribendo cogito
I learn by teaching, I think by writing

Dolus specialis
Special intent

Domine dirige nos
Lord guide us

Domine salvam fac reginam
God save the queen

Domine salvum fac regem
God save the king

Dominica in albis [depositis]
Sunday in [Setting Aside the] White Garments

Dominus illuminatio mea
The lord is my light

Dominus fortitude nostra
The lord is our strength

Dominus pastor
The lord [is our] shepherd

Dominus vobiscum
The lord be with you

Dona nobis pacem
Give us peace

Donation mortis causa
A donation in expectation of death

Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
A sleeping dragon is never to be tickled

Dramatis personae
The parts/characters of the play

Duae tabulae rasae in quibus nihil scriptum est
Two blank slates with nothing written upon them

Ducimus
We lead

Ducit amor patriae
Love of country leads me

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt
The fates lead the willing and drag the unwilling

Ductus exemplo
Leadership by example

Dulce bellum inexpertis
War is sweet to the inexperienced

Dulce est desipere in loco
It is sweet on occasion to play the fool. / it is pleasant to relax once in a while

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
It is sweet and honourable to die for the fatherland.

Dulce et utile
A sweet and useful thing/ pleasant and profitable

Dulce periculum
Danger is sweet

Dulcius ex asperis
Sweeter after difficulties

Dum cresco spero
I hope when I grow

Dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit
While Rome debates, Saguntum is in danger

Dum spiro spero
While I breathe, I hope

Dum vita est, spes est
While there is life, there is hope

Dum vivimus servimus
While we live, we serve

Dum vivimus, vivamus
While we live, let us live

Dura lex sed lex
[the] law [is] harsh, but [it is the] law

dura mater
tough mother

durante bene placito
during good pleasure

durante munere
while in office

dux bellorum
war leader

initium sapientiae timor domini
the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom