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hello and welcome to
this edition of study saturday here at
international yankee english
today we will talk about latin words
used in english a part two so if you
wanna hear some more
keep watching okay so if you've been
watching my channel for
some time then you may have already seen
my
top five latin words used in english
and i did have a request a comment in
the comment section
to do another video with more latin
terms i had asked whether
the viewers would like to see more of
that and i've had one or two people
in real life also say that they were
interested in seeing some more so i
decided today
to focus on the latin words and terms
that
are common in english so i hope you
enjoyed the
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first word is kind of two words and
they're not
words but abbreviations so am and
pm so we all know that in english that
uh
times that are before noon or midday
are written as am at the end a
period m period and then anytime after
noon or midday is p dot m
dots and that comes from latin a
phrase called anti-meridium i don't know
if my pronunciation is
on par or not and then post meridium so
it means basically before midday and
after midday
the next word or phrase that we have is
ad-hoc
this is commonly used for committees
that are set up
for a specific purpose so in
latin it means to this
and in english it is basically meant
that something is set up or organized
for a very specific intent and purpose
the next word is alibi in latin alibi
means
elsewhere and in english it's
most commonly used as your evidence that
you
were not at the scene of a crime when
the crime
occurred next up is the word bonus
in latin it is an adjective that means
good
and in english it basically means
additional of something so something
that is good additional or
more of something good so often at the
end of the
the year the fiscal year you can get a
salary bonus from your employer so some
extra money
so it is still good in english but it
has a little bit of a more specific
usage next up is the latin word
ergo this means therefore in latin
and it is used in the exact same way in
english it is a
synonym for the word therefore therefore
is still more common
than ergo but it is used it can be used
interchangeably
extra in latin is a preposition that
means
outside or in addition to so it's
pretty close meaning and used in the
same way to the english version of the
word
extra so kind of some more added on top
of something
the next latin word is impromptu
this means in readiness in line and
in english we use it as a synonym for
the word spontaneous so it's without
planning you're just kind of ready to go
and
you do it without putting a whole lot of
forethought into it
impromptu okay next is in english we use
it as a prefix or a prefix
so it comes before another word and that
is the latin word
multi this is plural form
of multus and that means many
in latin though in english when we use
multi as prefix
we're trying to say that it's more of
something so if something is
multi-purpose that means it has more
than one
purpose next up is per se
this means buy for of or
in itself so it's commonly used in
english to basically specify a
connection of one thing to another thing
so if somebody asks you do you want to
go for a walk
you may say not per se so
you don't necessarily specifically want
to do
the thing that they have just mentioned
next up is
quid pro quo this means something
for something so it is an exchange of
favors
this next one is something i've only
been using for about
the last five six years maybe
and that is the latin word re r e
um i'm not sure if that's how most
people pronounce it but that's how i do
i don't know if it's right
um it is very commonly used in english
emails or business english communication
and it basically means regarding or
about in latin it means about and in
english it's basically referring to
something that was previously discussed
so you're you're kind of bringing back a
topic that was discussed
in connection to the topic of your memo
or your email
next up is the latin word for half and
that means
semi or semi depending who you speak to
about the pronunciation
um i use both it
in english doesn't necessarily mean half
but it shows a sign of
partial or incompleteness of something
so if you say um are you
a proficient speaker of japanese
you could say i am semi-proficient so
that means you're not fully proficient
but it doesn't mean you speak
half of the japanese language it just
means that you have
some but not all of the language fluency
that
you would like to have next up is the
word versus
um written out it is spelled as you will
see here below
and um you can also use it as v
s dot or just v dot
in british english that is more common
to just do the v in american english
it's more common to do vs
and that is a latin preposition and that
means against or
toward and in english we use it now to
basically show opposing sides
um or opposites as well so um for
example when i have videos
comparing two different confusing word
pairs so
effect with an a an effect with an e i
may say
effect versus effects okay this next one
is one that i
use on nearly a daily basis i really
like this word for some reason and it is
the latin word
verbatim and that comes from the latin
word
verbum again pronunciation sorry which
means
word and in english when we use verbatim
we mean
that somebody is saying word for word
exactly what somebody else has said
so often i use that when i'm teaching
students about
writing and using references and sources
when you use word for word verbatim
what another author has written then it
is a direct
quote because you have word for word
taking what they have written
and their source material and put it
into your own
material and then you need to give
proper credit for that
okay the last one that i have for you
guys today i didn't want to make this
too long is vice versa
and this in latin means in a turned
position
and in english we use it when things are
interchangeable i really like my friend
sally
and then somebody could say well and
vice versa sally really likes you too
so then it goes both ways okay guys that
is
it for today i am very excited
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