Common Latin Phrases
Common Latin phrases
Editorial history
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Purpose of this page
This page provides a dictionary of common latin phrases taken from mid-C17th High Court of Admiralty documents. For additional help this link is useful if you scroll down it has a list of latin words, it is based on Medieval latin. [ http://archives.nd.edu/latgramm.htm]
We have some classically trained project team members, including David Pashley, who studied classics at Cambridge. They may react with horror at Colin Greenstreet's school boy latin below. He last studied latin in the 3rd form of secondary school in 1972. A great opportunity for the younger project associates who have studied or are studying Latin to add to the Latin pharases below and to correct any obvious mistranscriptions by Colin (who is basically a decent palaeographer, but who recognises he has his limits)
Suggested links
See Abbreviations
See Alphabet of ships
See Commodities
See Currency and Specie
See Geographical and Place Terms
See Legal & Commercial Terms
See Marine Terms
See Weights and Measures
Index
A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z
A
Aclate
Ad Interria
Ad Interrogatoria
Ad predeporta
Ad ult dicit
Allegate ("the said shipp the Lady frigot with her lading allegate" (HCA 13/73))
Annex ("Ad 3:nd et 4:nd arles et schedule annex deponit et dictit" (HCA 13/64 f.22v))
Arlate (abbreviation of 'articulate', as in 'aforesaid' or 'mentioned in the articles', 'the ship articulate')
Arlum
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B
Bona fide
C
Caudet ("Et alr caudet" (HCA 13/64 f.22r))
D
Deponit ("deponit et dictit" (HCA 13/64 f.23r)) (a stock phrase meaning 'deposes and says' - sometimes appears in English equivalent, 'saieth and deposeth')
Dicit
E
Et alr nescit (Et alias[?] nescit - 'and otherwise does not know')
Et alr nescit deponere ('and otherwise does not know [what] to depose')
Et alr referendo
Et fiat ut supra
Et interr ut supra
Et interrogotur con:m div:m et du quolet
Examinat ("this Examinat")
Examinatus
I
Infrascripts ("Et alr. salus infrascripts nescit deponXX" (HCA 13/64 f.22v))
Imp:rm interroget:r
the lre interrte
Interria ("Idem ad Interria" (HCA 13/64 f.22v))
Interries
Interrogatoria ("INTERROGATORIA ministrata et ministrand ex parte et p partem William Browne testibus omnibus et singulis ex parte Edward Webb pductis sen pducendis sequuntur")
Item Inter quilibi
Item Interroget:r quilet
K
M
Mercator (= merchant)
N
Nauta (= sailor)
P
P:rdeposita ("Ad ultims predeposta" (HCA 13/64 f. 22v))
Prima ("Ad prima interria deponit" (HCA 13/64 f.27r))
Productus ("productus et iuratus" (HCA 13/64 f. 23r))
Q
Quad
R
Rendet
Rendent ("this Rendent", abbreviation of 'Respondent')
S
Secundum ("Ad prima et secondum acle dicta allagacione deponit dictit" (HCA 13/64 f.22r))
Super allagaconne
Supra allegacon
T
Testibus ("Testibus omnibus et singulis ex parte et p partem")
U
Ultims ("Ad ultims predeposta" (HCA 13/64 f.22v))
V
Vizt ("viz" in modern English) = videlicet = namely ("as followeth vizt" in HCA 13/73 f.230r P1130619)
