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“esse”
(Latin: to be)
(Greek -issa > Late Latin -issa > Old French -esse > Middle English -esse: a suffix that forms nouns meaning a female +++, as in lioness, tigress, heiress, hostess, and sculptress)
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“esse”
Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio; sectantem levia. Nervi deficiunt animique. (Latin proverb)
Translation: "When I try to be brief, I become obscure. Aiming at smoothness, I fail in force and fire."
From Ars Poetica, by Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) who was instructing writers that it may be difficult to achieve brevity without sacrificing clarity.
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short."
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brevi-, brev- [brie-, bri-] +
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Latin Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Words: Group B
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obscur-
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sec-, seg-, -sect, -section, -sectional
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Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros.
Learning humanizes character and does not permit it to be cruel.
Motto of the University of South Carolina, South Carolina, USA.
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Latin Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Words: Group E
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Esse quam videri.
To be rather than to seem.
Also translated, "To be rather than to seem to be." State motto of North Carolina, USA; and a motto of the National College of Chiropractic, Lombard, Illinois, USA.
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Latin Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Words: Group E
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vid-, video-, vis-, -vision, -visional, -visionally, visuo-, vu-
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Esto quod esse videris.
Be what you seem to be.
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Latin Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Words: Group E
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vid-, video-, vis-, -vision, -visional, -visionally, visuo-, vu-
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Testis nemo in sua causa esse potest
No one can be a witness in his own cause.
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testi-, test-
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Testis nemo in sua causa esse potest.
No one can be a witness in his own cause.
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Latin Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Words: Group T
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Ultimum supplicium esse mortem solam interpretamur.
The most extreme punishment we consider to be death alone: used in law.
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mort-, mor-, mori-, morti- +
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ultim- +
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