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Acadēmīa Latīnitātis, an English-Neo-Latin dictionary There are currently 209 entries
Welcome to the English-Latin Dictionary Acadēmīa Latīnitātis, a collaborative project to produce a dictionary for the use of modern Latin. Feel free to use the search bar! Its goal goes beyond that of a normal dictionary, because in addition to purely descriptive entries, our goal is to coin new Latin words to keep the language alive.	Random Latin fact Marcus Tullius Cicerō The Roman statesman Cicero had a folk etymological explanation for why we say nōbīscum and not cum nōbīs. Why don't we say cum nōbīs, but rather nōbīscum? Because: If we say it the other way, the letters would run together in a rather obscene way. —Marcus Tullius Cicerō, § 154 Ōrātor ad Brūtum The joke is: cum nōbīs can easily be misunderstood as cunnō bīs which has a lewd meaning, that we are not going to explain here. Newest entries the, independence, lawspeaker, Stockholmer, Osloite, Oslo, Stockholm, Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Rome, hobby, Copenhagener, Copenhagen, legislature, antinomy, East Timor, China, minced meat, Cambodia, Brunei, equivalence, value, analysis, variable, strictly speaking, Bhutan, Bangladesh, full slip, slip, waist slip, half slip, petticoat, gridiron, steak, mill wheel, lather, froth, foam, soap, Bahrain, Azerbaijan, brain, Neuroscience, Armenia, Afghanistan, weekly, week, ouch, tissue