| Latin | Translation | Notes |
| pace | [with] peace [to] | "With all due respect to", "with due deference to", "by exit of", "no offence to", or "despite (with respect)". Used to politely acknowledge someone with whom the speaker or writer disagrees or finds irrelevant to the main argument. Ablative form of pax, "peace." |
| step tua | with your peace | Thus, "with your permission". |
| Pacem in terris | Peace on World | |
| pacta sunt servanda | agreements must exist kept | Also "contracts must be honoured". Indicates the binding power of treaties. One of the fundamental rules of international law. |
| palma non sine pulvere | no reward without effort | Also "cartel to try"; motto of numerous schools. |
| palmam qui meruit ferat | He who has earned the palm, allow him bear it. | Loosely, "achievement should be rewarded" (or, "allow the symbol of victory get to him who has deserved it"); frequently used motto |
| panem et circenses | staff of life and circuses | From Juvenal, Satire X, line 81. Originally described all that was needed for emperors to placate the Roman mob. Today used to depict whatever entertainment used to distract public attention from more important matters. |
| par sit down fortuna labori | Permit the success be equal to the labor. | This motto is of the families Buchanan, Lowman, and Palmer, according to Burke'due south Peerage & Baronetage. |
| parvus pendetur fur, magnus abire videtur | The fiddling thief is hanged, the big thief gets abroad. | |
| para bellum | prepare for state of war | From "Si vis pacem para bellum": if yous want peace, set for war—if a country is ready for war, its enemies are less likely to attack. Usually used to support a policy of peace through force (deterrence). In antiquity, nonetheless, the Romans viewed peace as the aftermath of successful conquest through war, so in this sense the proverb identifies war every bit the means through which peace volition be accomplished. |
| parare Domino plebem perfectam | to set for God a perfect people | motto of the St. Jean Baptiste Loftier School |
| parce sepulto | forgive the interred | information technology is ungenerous to concord resentment toward the dead. Quote from the Aeneid, III xiii-68. |
| parens patriae | parent of the nation | A public policy requiring courts to protect the best interests of any child involved in a lawsuit. See as well Pater Patriae. |
| pari passu | with equal step | Thus, "moving together", "simultaneously", etc. Also used to abbreviate the principle that in bankruptcy creditors must all get the aforementioned proportion of their debt. |
| parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus | The mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will exist born. | said of works that promise much at the outset just yield little in the stop (Horace, Ars poetica 137) – encounter also The Mountain in Labour |
| parum luceat | Information technology does not smoothen [being darkened past shade]. | Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 1/6:34 – encounter likewise lucus a nonlucendo |
| parva sub ingenti | the small-scale under the huge | Implies that the weak are under the protection of the potent, rather than that they are inferior. Motto of Prince Edward Island. |
| parvis imbutus tentabis grandia tutus | When you are steeped in footling things, you shall safely attempt great things. | Motto of Barnard Castle School, sometimes translated equally "Once you have achieved small-scale things, y'all may endeavor nifty ones safely". |
| passim | here and there, everywhere | Less literally, "throughout" or "frequently". Said of a word, fact or notion that occurs several times in a cited text. Also used in proofreading, where it refers to a change that is to be repeated everywhere needed. See also et passim. |
| pater familias | father of the family unit | Or "main of the house". The eldest male person in a family, who held patria potestas ("paternal ability"). In Roman police force, a father had enormous power over his children, wife, and slaves, though these rights dwindled over time. Derived from the phrase pater familias, an Onetime Latin expression preserving the archaic -equally catastrophe for the genitive case. |
| Pater Omnipotens | Father Omnipotent | A more direct translation would exist "omnipotent father". |
| Pater Patriae | begetter of the nation | A Latin honorific meaning "Begetter of the State", or more literally, "Male parent of the Fatherland". |
| pater peccavi | Father, I have sinned | The traditional kickoff of a Roman Cosmic confession. |
| pauca sed bona | few, only skillful | Similar to "quality over quantity"; though there may be few of something, at to the lowest degree they are of good quality. |
| pauca sed matura | few, but ripe | Said to be one of Carl Gauss's favorite quotations. Used in The King and I by Rodgers and Hammerstein. |
| paulatim ergo certe | slowly therefore surely | Former motto of Latymer Upper Schoolhouse in London (the text latim er is curtained in the words) |
| paulatim sed firmiter | slowly but surely | Motto of University College School in London |
| pax aeterna | eternal peace | A common epitaph |
| Pax Americana | American Peace | A euphemism for the United states of america and its sphere of influence. Adjusted from Pax Romana. |
| Pax Britannica | British Peace | A euphemism for the British Empire. Adapted from Pax Romana |
| Pax Christi | Peace of Christ | Used equally a wish earlier the Holy Communion in the Catholic Mass, also the name of the peace movement Pax Christi |
| pax Dei | peace of God | Used in the Peace and Truce of God movement in 10th-century France |
| Pax Deorum | Peace of the gods | Similar the vast majority of inhabitants of the ancient earth, the Romans practiced pagan rituals, believing information technology important to achieve a state of Pax Deorum (The Peace of the gods) instead of Ira Deorum (The Wrath of the gods). |
| Pax, Domine | peace, lord | lord or master; used as a grade of accost when speaking to clergy or educated professionals |
| pax et bonum | peace and the adept | Motto of St. Francis of Assisi and, consequently, of his monastery in Assisi; understood by Catholics to mean 'Peace and Goodness be with you,' equally is similar in the Mass; translated in Italian every bit pace e bene. |
| pax et justitia | peace and justice | Motto of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
| pax et lux | peace and lite | Motto of Tufts University and various schools |
| Pax Europaea | European Peace | euphemism for Europe after Earth War II |
| Pax Hispanica | Spanish Peace | Euphemism for the Spanish Empire; specifically can mean the twenty-3 years of supreme Castilian dominance in Europe (approximately 1598–1621). Adjusted from Pax Romana. |
| pax in terra | peace on world | Used to exemplify the desired country of peace on earth |
| Pax intrantibus, salus exeuntibus | Peace to those who enter, health to those who depart. | Used as an inscription over the archway of buildings (especially homes, monasteries, inns). Oftentimes benedicto habitantibus (Blessings on those who abide hither) is added. |
| pax matrum, ergo pax familiarum | peace of mothers, therefore peace of families | If the mother is peaceful, then the family unit is peaceful. The inverse of the Southern United States saying, "If mama ain't happy, own't nobody happy." |
| Pax Mongolica | Mongolian Peace | menstruation of peace and prosperity in Asia during the Mongol Empire |
| pax optima rerum | peace is the greatest good | Silius Italicus, Punica (11,595); motto of the university of Kiel |
| Pax Romana | Roman Peace | menstruum of relative prosperity and lack of conflict in the early Roman Empire |
| Pax Sinica | Chinese Peace | catamenia of peace in East asia during times of stiff Chinese hegemony |
| pax tecum | peace be with you lot (singular) |
| Pax tibi, Marce, Evangelista meus. Hic requiescet corpus tuum. | Peace to y'all, Marking, my Evangelist. Here will rest your body. | | Fable states that when the evangelist went to the lagoon where Venice would later be founded, an angel came and said this.[1] The start office is depicted as the note in the book shown opened past the lion of St Mark'southward Basilica, Venice; registered trademark of the Assicurazioni Generali, Trieste.[2] |  | |
| pax vobiscum | peace [be] with yous | A common adieu. The "y'all" is plural ("you all"), so the phrase must exist used when speaking to more than than 1 person; pax tecum is the course used when speaking to only i person. |
| peccavi | I have sinned | Telegraph message and pun from Charles Napier, British general, upon completely subjugating the Indian province of Sindh in 1842 ('I accept Sindh'). This is, arguably, the most terse military despatch e'er sent. The story is apocryphal. |
| pecunia non olet | money doesn't smell | According to Suetonius' De vita Caesarum, when Emperor Vespasian was challenged past his son Titus for taxing the public lavatories, the emperor held upwardly a coin before his son and asked whether it smelled or just said non olet ("information technology doesn't odour"). From this, the phrase was expanded to pecunia non olet, or rarely aes non olet ("copper doesn't smell"). |
| pecunia, si uti scis, ancilla est; si nescis, domina | if you know how to use coin, money is your slave; if you don't, coin is your principal | Written on an old Latin tablet in downtown Verona (Italy). |
| pede poena claudo | penalisation comes limping | That is, retribution comes slowly but surely. From Horace, Odes, 3, 2, 32. |
| pendent opera interrupta | the works hang interrupted | From the Aeneid of Virgil, Book IV |
| per | By, through, by ways of | See specific phrases below |
| per angusta advertising augusta | through difficulties to greatness | Joining judgement of the conspirators in the drama Hernani past Victor Hugo (1830). The motto of numerous educational establishments. |
| per annum (pa.) | each year | Thus, "yearly"—occurring every year |
| per ardua | through adversity | Motto of the British RAF Regiment |
| per ardua ad alta | through difficulty to heights | Through hardship, great heights are reached; frequently used motto |
| per ardua advertising astra | through adversity to the stars | Motto of the Royal, Imperial Australian and Regal New Zealand Air Forces, the U. South. State of Kansas and of several schools. The phrase is used by Latin Poet Virgil in the Aeneid; too used in H. Passenger Haggard'due south novel The People of the Mist. |
| per aspera advertising astra | through hardships to the stars | From Seneca the Younger; ofttimes used motto, sometimes every bit advertizing astra per aspera ("to the stars through hardships") |
| per capita | by heads | "Per head", i.e., "per person", a ratio by the number of persons. The atypical is per caput. |
| per capsulam | through the small box | That is, "by letter" |
| per contra | through the contrary | Or "on the contrary" (cf. a contrario) |
| per crucem vincemus | through the cross we shall conquer | Motto of St John Fisher Catholic Loftier School, Dewsbury |
| Per Crucem Crescens | through the cross, growth | Motto of Lambda Chi Blastoff |
| per curiam | through the senate | Legal term significant "by the court", as in a per curiam decision |
| per definitionem | through the definition | Thus, "by definition" |
| per diem (pd.) | by twenty-four hour period | Thus, "per day". A specific corporeality of coin an organization allows an private to spend per twenty-four hour period, typically for travel expenses. |
| per fas et nefas | through correct or wrong | By fair ways or foul |
| per fidem intrepidus | fearless through faith |
per literas regias
per lit. reg.
per regias literas
per reg. lit.
etc. | past majestic letters | by letters patent;
of academic degrees: awarded by messages patent from the Male monarch/Queen, rather than past a University[3] [4] |
| per mare per terram | past sea and by land | Motto of the Royal Marines and (with small difference) of Clan Donald and the Compagnies Franches de la Marine |
| per mensem (pm.) | by month | Thus, "per month", or "monthly" |
| per multum cras, cras, crebro dilabitur aetas | what tin can be washed today should not be delayed | |
| per os (p.o.) | through the mouth | Medical shorthand for "by mouth" |
| per pedes | by anxiety | Used of a certain place that can exist traversed or reached by pes, or to indicate that ane is travelling by pes as opposed to by a vehicle |
| per procura (p.p. or per pro ) | through the agency | Also rendered per procurationem. Used to point that a person is signing a document on behalf of another person. Correctly placed before the name of the person signing, but oft placed before the name of the person on whose behalf the certificate is signed, sometimes through incorrect translation of the culling abridgement per pro. as "for and on behalf of". |
| per quod | past reason of which | In a UK legal context: "past reason of which" (every bit opposed to per se which requires no reasoning). In American jurisprudence ofttimes refers to a spouse's claim for loss of consortium. |
| per rectum (pr) | through the rectum | Medical autograph; run across likewise per bone |
| per rectum ad astra | via rectum to the stars | a modern parody of per aspera ad astra, originating and most commonly used in Russia, meaning that the path to success took you through nearly undesirable and objectionable places or environments; or that a institute solution to a complex problem is extremely convoluted. |
| per risum multum poteris cognoscere stultum | by excessive laughter one can recognise the fool | |
| per se | through itself | As well "past itself" or "in itself". Without referring to anything else, intrinsically, taken without qualifications etc. A common example is negligence per se. Run into also malum in se. |
| per stirpes | through the roots | Used in wills to betoken that each "branch" of the testator's family unit should inherit equally. Assorted with per capita. |
| per unitatem vis | through unity, strength | Motto of Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets |
| per veritatem vis | through truth, strength | Motto of Washington University in St. Louis |
| per volar sunata[sic] | born to soar | Frequently used motto; not from Latin merely from Dante's Purgatorio, Canto XII, 95, the Italian phrase "per volar sù nata". |
| Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim | Be patient and tough; some twenty-four hour period this hurting volition be useful to you. | From Ovid, Amores, Volume III, Elegy XI |
| periculum in mora | danger in filibuster | |
| perinde ac [si] cadaver [essent] | [well-disciplined] similar a corpse | Phrase written by St. Ignatius of Loyola in his Constitutiones Societatis Iesu (1954) |
| perita manus mens exculta | skilled paw, cultivated mind | Motto of RMIT Academy in Melbourne, Commonwealth of australia |
| perge sequar | accelerate, I follow | from Virgil'due south Aeneid IV 114; in Vergil'southward context: "proceed with your plan, I will exercise my part." |
| Pericula ludus | Danger is my pleasance | Motto of the Strange Legion Detachment in Mayotte |
| perpetuum mobile | thing in perpetual move | A musical term; also used to refer to hypothetical perpetual motion machines |
| Perseverantia et Fide in Deo | Perseverance and Faith in God | Motto of Bombay Scottish Schoolhouse, Mahim, Republic of india |
| persona non grata | person not pleasing | An unwelcome, unwanted or undesirable person. In diplomatic contexts, a person rejected by the host government. The reverse, persona grata ("pleasing person"), is less mutual, and refers to a diplomat acceptable to the government of the country to which he is sent. |
| Foot meus stetit in directo | My foot has stood in the correct way (or in uprightness; in integrity) | Motto of the Calorie-free Armoured Cavalry Regiment Santiago No 1, Spanish Army;[5] Psalm 26:12 |
| petitio principii | request of the beginning | Begging the question, a logical fallacy in which a proposition to be proved is implicitly or explicitly assumed in one of the bounds |
| pia desideria | pious longings | Or "dutiful desires" |
| pia fraus | pious fraud | Or "dutiful deceit". Expression from Ovid; used to draw deception which serves Church building purposes |
| pia mater | pious mother | Or "tender mother". The frail innermost of the three membranes that cover the encephalon and spinal cord. |
| Pietate et doctrina tuta libertas | Freedom is made condom through character and learning | Motto of Dickinson College |
| pinxit | one painted | Thus, "he painted this" or "she painted this". Formerly used on works of art, next to the creative person's proper name. |
| piscem natare doces | [you] teach a fish to swim | Latin proverb, attributed by Erasmus in his Adagia to Greek origin (Diogenianus, Ἰχθὺν νήχεσθαι διδάσκεις); corollary Chinese idiom (班門弄斧) |
| placet | information technology pleases | expression of assent |
| plaudite, cives | applaud, citizens | Said past ancient comic actors to solicit the audition's adulation |
| plene scriptum | fully written | |
| plenus venter non studet libenter | A total belly does not like studying | I.eastward., it is hard to concentrate on mental tasks afterwards a heavy repast. The following variant is too attested: plenus si venter renuit studere libenter (the belly, when full, refuses to report willingly). |
| plenus venter facile de ieiuniis disputat | A total belly readily discusses fasting. | Hieronymus, Epistulæ 58,2 |
| pluralis majestatis | plural of majesty | The commencement-person plural pronoun when used past an important personage to refer to himself or herself; also known as the "royal we" |
| pluralis modestiae | plural of modesty | |
| plus minusve (p.m.v.) | more or less | Frequently found on Roman funerary inscriptions to announce that the age of a decedent is approximate |
| plus ultra | further beyond | National motto of Spain and a number of other institutions |
| pollice compresso favor iudicabatur | goodwill decided past compressed thumb | Life was spared with a thumb tucked within a closed fist, simulating a sheathed weapon. Conversely, a thumb upward meant to unsheath your sword. |
| pollice verso | with a turned pollex | Used by Roman crowds to pass judgment on a defeated gladiator. The blazon of gesture used is uncertain. Too the proper noun of a famous painting depicting gladiators past Jean-Léon Gérôme. |
| Polonia Restituta | Rebirth of Poland | |
| pons asinorum | bridge of asses | Any obstacle that stupid people find hard to cantankerous. Originally used of Euclid's Fifth Proposition in geometry. |
| Pontifex Maximus | Greatest High Priest | Or "Supreme Pontiff". Originally an office in the Roman Commonwealth, later a title held past Roman Emperors, and later a traditional epithet of the pope. The pontifices were the most of import priestly college of the religion in ancient Rome; their name is normally idea to derive from pons facere ("to make a bridge"), which in plow is unremarkably linked to their religious say-so over the bridges of Rome, particularly the Pons Sublicius. |
| posse comitatus | strength of the county[half-dozen] | Thus, to be able to be made into role of a retinue or strength. In mutual constabulary, a sheriff's correct to compel people to aid law enforcement in unusual situations. |
| possunt quia posse videntur | They can because they think they can | Inscription on the dorsum of Putney medals, awarded to gunkhole race winning Oxford dejection. From Virgil's Aeneid Book V line 231. |
| post aut propter | after information technology or past means of it | Causality between two phenomena is not established (cf. mail service hoc, ergo propter hoc) |
| post cibum (p.c.) | after food | Medical shorthand for "later on meals" (cf. ante cibum) |
| post coitum | Afterward sex | Afterwards sexual intercourse |
| mail service coitum omne creature triste est sive gallus et mulier | Later sexual intercourse every animal is sad, except the cock (rooster) and the woman | Or: triste est omne animal post coitum, praeter mulierem gallumque. Attributed to Galen of Pergamum.[7] |
| mail service eventum | subsequently the event | Refers to an action or occurrence that takes identify subsequently the event that is beingness discussed (similar in meaning to mail service factum). More specifically, it may refer to a person who is recounting an event long after it took identify, implying that details of the story may accept changed over time. (Some sources attribute this expression to George Eliot.) |
| post factum | after the fact | Not to be confused with ex postal service facto. |
| post festum | afterward the feast | Too tardily, or subsequently the fact |
| mail service hoc ergo propter hoc | after this, therefore because of this | A logical fallacy where 1 assumes that ane thing happening later on another thing means that the first thing caused the 2d. |
| post meridiem (p.one thousand.) | after midday | The period from apex to midnight (cf. dues meridiem) |
| mail mortem (pm) | after death | Usually rendered postmortem. Not to be confused with post meridiem |
| Mail mortem auctoris (p.m.a.) | later the author's decease | The phrase is used in legal terminology in the context of intellectual holding rights, especially copyright, which ordinarily lasts until a certain number of years after the writer's death. |
| post nubila phoebus | after the clouds, the sun | Motto of the Academy of Zulia, Venezuela, likewise as Hartford, Connecticut |
| mail service nubes lux | out of darkness, light | Motto of Cranfield University |
| post scriptum (p.s.) | after what has been written | A postscript. Used to mark additions to a letter, after the signature. Can exist extended to post post scriptum (p.p.s.), etc. |
| post tenebras lux, or, post tenebras spero lucem | later darkness, [I hope for] lite | from Vulgata, Task 17:12; oftentimes used motto |
| postera crescam laude | I am going to abound in the esteem of future generations | Motto of the University of Melbourne |
| potest solum unum | There can exist merely 1 | Highlander |
| praemia virtutis honores | honours are the rewards of virtue | |
| praemonitus praemunitus | forewarned is forearmed | Common catch phrase of the fictional character "Captain Blood" from the novel Captain Blood (novel) |
| praesis ut prosis ne ut imperes | Lead in order to serve, non in lodge to rule. | Motto of Lancaster Royal Grammer School |
| praeter legem | afterwards the law | Legal terminology, international law |
| Praga Caput Regni | Prague, Caput of the Kingdom | Motto of Prague from Centre Ages |
| Praga Caput Rei publicae | Prague, Head of the Commonwealth | Motto of Prague from 1991 |
| Praga mater urbium | Prague, Mother of Cities | Motto of Prague from 1927 |
| Praga totius Bohemiae domina | Prague, the mistress of the whole of Bohemia | Former motto of Prague |
| Pretium Laborum Non Vile | No mean advantage for labour | Motto of the Social club of the Golden Fleece |
| pretiumque et causa laboris | The prize and the cause of our labour | Motto of Burnley Football Club; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, four.739 (Latin)/English language): "The Tale of Perseus and Andromeda": resoluta catenis incedit virgo, pretiumque et causa laboris. ("freed of her bondage the virgin approaches, crusade and reward of the enterprise.") |
| prima facie | at start sight | Used to designate evidence in a trial which is suggestive, but not conclusive, of something (e.chiliad., a person'due south guilt) |
| prima luce | at dawn | Literally "at outset light" |
| primas sum: primatum zippo a me alienum puto | I am a primate; zero about primates is foreign to me | A sentence by the American anthropologist Hostage Hooton and the slogan of primatologists and lovers of primates. Derived from homo sum, humani a me nihil alienum puto. |
| primum mobile | first moving affair | Or "kickoff thing able to exist moved"; see primum movens |
| primum movens | prime number mover | Or "first moving i". A common theological term, such equally in the cosmological argument, based on the assumption that God was the showtime entity to "move" or "cause" annihilation. Aristotle was ane of the first philosophers to discuss the "uncaused crusade", a hypothetical originator—and violator—of causality. |
| primum non nocere | first, to not harm | A medical axiom. Ofttimes falsely attributed to the Hippocratic Oath, though its truthful source is probably a paraphrase from Hippocrates' Epidemics, where he wrote, "Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the time to come; do these acts. As to diseases, brand a habit of two things: to assistance, or at least to do no impairment." |
| primus inter pares | first among equals | Position of the Ecumenical Patriarch in the Eastern Orthodox Church, position of the President of the Swiss Confederation among the members of the Federal Quango, and a title of the Roman Emperors (cf. princeps). |
| principia probant not probantur | principles prove; they are not proved | Fundamental principles require no proof; they are assumed a priori. |
| principiis obsta (et respice finem) | resist the ancestry (and consider the cease) | Ovid, Remedia Amoris, 91 |
| principium individuationis | Individuation | psychological term: the self-formation of the personality into a coherent whole |
| prior tempore potior iure | earlier in time, stronger in constabulary | A legal principle that older laws accept precedence over newer ones. The inverse principle is known as lex posterior. |
| pro aris et focis | For altars and hearths | The motto of the Royal Queensland Regiment, and many other regiments. |
| pro bono publico | for the public good | Oft abbreviated pro bono. Work undertaken voluntarily at no expense, such as public services. Often used of a lawyer's work that is not charged for. |
| pro Brasilia fiant eximia | let exceptional things be fabricated for Brazil | Motto of São Paulo state, Brazil. |
| pro Deo Domo Patria | For God, home and country | Motto of the Academy of Mary Washington |
| pro Deo et Patria | For God and Country | Frequently used motto |
| pro domo (sua) | for (one's own) home or house | serving the interests of a given perspective or for the do good of a given grouping. |
| pro Ecclesia, pro Texana | For Church building, For Texas | Motto of Baylor University, a private Christian Baptist academy in Waco, Texas. |
| pro fide et patria | for faith and fatherland | Motto of the originally Irish gaelic Muldoon family and of several schools, such as the Diocesan College (Bishops) in Cape Boondocks, South Africa, and All Hallows High School in the Bronx, New York. |
| pro forma | for form | Or "equally a matter of course". Prescribing a set grade or procedure, or performed in a set manner. |
| pro gloria et patria | for glory and fatherland | Motto of Prussia |
| pro hac vice | for this occasion | Request of a state courtroom to permit an out-of-country lawyer to represent a client. |
| pro multis | for many | It is function of the Rite of Induction of the wine in Western Christianity tradition, every bit part of the Mass. |
| pro parte | in office | Frequently used in taxonomy to refer to function of a group. |
| pro patria | for land | Pro Patria Medal: for operational service (minimum 55 days) in defense of the Commonwealth Due south Africa or in the prevention or suppression of terrorism; issued for the Border War (counter-insurgency operations in South West Africa 1966–89) and for campaigns in Angola (1975–76 and 1987–88). Motto of The Regal Canadian Regiment, Royal South Australia Regiment, Hurlstone Agricultural High Schoolhouse. |
| pro patria vigilans | watchful for the country | Motto of the United States Army Signal Corps. |
| pro populo et gloria | for the people and glory | Motto of HMSWestminster |
| pro per | for self | to defend oneself in court without counsel; abbreviation of propria persona. See as well: pro se. |
| pro rata | for the charge per unit | i.e., proportionately. |
| pro re nata (PRN, prn) | for a matter that has been born | Medical autograph for "as the occasion arises" or "as needed". Likewise "concerning a matter having come into being". Used to describe a meeting of a special Presbytery or Associates called to discuss something new, and which was previously unforeseen (literally: "concerning a matter having been built-in"). |
| pro rege et lege | for rex and the law | Found on the Leeds glaze of artillery. |
| pro rege, lege et grege | for rex, the law and the people | Establish on the coat of arms of Perth, Scotland. |
| pro se | for oneself | to defend oneself in court without counsel. Some jurisdictions prefer, "pro per". |
| pro scientia atque sapientia | for knowledge and wisdom | motto of Stuyvesant High School in New York City |
| pro scientia et patria | for scientific discipline and nation | motto of the National Academy of La Plata |
| pro studio et labore | for study and piece of work | |
| pro tanto | for and then much | Denotes something that has only been partially fulfilled. A philosophical term indicating the credence of a theory or idea without fully accepting the explanation. |
| pro tanto quid retribuemus | what shall we give in return for so much | The motto of the urban center of Belfast; taken from the Vulgate translation of Psalm 116. |
| pro tempore | for the fourth dimension (being) | Denotes a temporary current situation; abbreviated pro tem. |
| probatio pennae | testing of the pen | Medieval Latin term for breaking in a new pen |
| probis pateo | I am open for honest people | Traditionally inscribed above a city gate or to a higher place the forepart entrance of a abode or identify of learning. |
| prodesse quam conspici | To Accomplish Rather Than To Exist Conspicuous | motto of Miami University |
| propria manu (p.yard.) | "by i's own mitt" |
| propter vitam vivendi perdere causas | to destroy the reasons for living for the sake of life | That is, to squander life'southward purpose just in order to stay live, and live a meaningless life. From Juvenal, Satyricon VIII, verses 83–84. |
| protectio trahit subjectionem, et subjectio protectionem | Protection draws allegiance, and fidelity draws protection | Legal proverb, indicating that reciprocity of fealty with protection |
| provehito in altum | launch forward into the deep | motto of Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| proxime accessit | he came next | the runner-up |
| proximo mense (prox.) | in the following calendar month | Used in formal correspondence to refer to the next calendar month. Used with ult. ("terminal month") and inst. ("this month"). |
| pulchrum est paucorum hominum | Dazzler is for the few | from Friedrich Nietzsche's 1889 book Twilight of the Idols |
| pulvis et umbra sumus | nosotros are dust and shadow | From Horace, Carmina Book Four, vii, sixteen.[8] |
| punctum saliens | leaping point | Thus, the essential or nigh notable point. The salient point. |
| purificatus non consumptus | purified, not consumed | |
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