Philosophy: Latin terms with English translations

A

ABLATIO - denial
ABSOLUTE - absolutely
ABSTRACTIO - abstraction
ABSTRACTIVUM - abstractive
ACCIDENS - accident
ACCIDENTALITER - accidentally
ACCIDERE - to happen
ACCIPERE - to receive or undertake
ACTIO - action
ACTUS - act, actuality
AD ALIQUID - relative to something
ADAEQUATIO - adequation, commensuration
ADAEQUABILITAS - adequability
AENIGMA - enigma, riddle
AEQUALITAS - equality
AEQUIPARANTIA - comparison, equiparance, equivalence
AEQUALITAS AEQUIPARANTIAE - comparative equality
AEQUIVOCUM - equivocal
AEQUIVOCATIO - equivocation
AESTIMATIO - estimation
AETERNITAS - eternity
AEVUM - aeon, age
AFFECTIO - affection, condition, affect
AFFECTUS - affect
AGERE - to do, to work, to act
AGENS - agent
ALIQUID - something
ALIUD - other
ÀLLEGORIA - allegory
ALTERATIO - alteration
ALTERATUM - other
AMOR - love
AMPHIBOLIA - amphibology
ANALOGIA - analogy
ANALOGIA ATTRIBUTIONIS - attributive analogy
ANALOGIA PROPORTIONIS - proportional analogy
ANIMA - soul
ANIMAL - animal
ANIMUS - spirit
APPARENTIA - evidence, clarity
APPETITUS - appetite, inclination; desire
APPREHENSIO - apprehension
A POSTERIORI - dependent upon experience or evidence
A PRIORI - independent of experience
APROPRIATUM - apropriated quality or aspect
APTITUDO - aptitude
APTITUDINALIS - aptitudinal
ARBITRIUM LIBERUM - free choice, freedom of will
ARGUMENTUM - argument
ARGUMENTUM A PRIORI - a priori argument
ARGUMENTUM A POSTERIORI - a posteriori argument
ARS - art, skill
ARTIFEX - creator, artist
ARTIFICIALIS - artificial
ARTIFICIOSE - artificially
ASSIMILARI - to be assimilated
ATTRIBUTUM - attribute, property
AUCTOR - author, authoritative source
AUCTORITAS - authority, power, opinion, advice, encouragement, will, authoritative writing
AUGMENTATIO - augmentation, increase

B

BEATITUDO - beatitude, blessedness, happiness
BEATUS - blessed, happy
BENEDICTUM - blessed
BENEFICIUM - favor, boon
BENEVOLENTIA - benevolence, good will, kindness, friendship
BONUM - (moral) good, kindness, benefit, prosperity, property, advantage

C

CATEGOREMATICE - categorematically
CATHEGREUMA, CATEGOREMA - categorematic term
CATEGORIA - category
CAUSA - cause, reason
CAUSA DEFICIENS - deficient cause
CAUSA EFFICIENS - efficient cause
CAUSA FINALIS - final cause
CAUSA FORMALIS - formal cause
CAUSA MATERIALIS - material cause
CAUSA ACCIDENTALIS - accidental cause
CAUSA PROPRIA - proper cause
CAUSATIVUM - causative, causing
CERTITUDO - certitude
CIVITAS - city, community
COAPTATIO - connection, joining together
COGERE - connect, draw together, infer, conclude
COGITARE - to think, to judge, to cogitate
COGITATIO - thought, judgment, cogitation
COGITATIVA VIRTUS - the cogitative faculty
COGNITIO - knowledge, cognition, acquaintance, consideration, conception, notion, idea
COGNITIO ABSTRACTIVA - abstractive knowledge
COGNITIO INTUITIVA - intuitive knowledge
COGNITIO NATURALIS - natural knowledge
COGNOSCENS - knower
COGNOSCERE - to learn, to perceive
COGNOSCIBILE - cognoscible, knowable
COGNOSCIBILITAS - knowability
COLLECTIO - inference
COLLIGO - to gather, to bring together, to bring out, to infer
COMMENTARIUS (COMMENTARIUM) - commentary
COMMUNE - common
COMMUNIA - common, joint, universal
COMMUNICARE - to be common, to connect, to impart, to partake
COMMUNIO - communion, partaking
COMMUNIS - common
COMPENDIUM - shortening, abbreviation, compendium
COMPLEXIO - combination, inference, constitution
COMPLEXUM - complex
COMPONERE - to compound
COMPOSITIO - composition
COMPOSITUM - composite
COMPREHENSOR - one who comprehends
CONCEPTIO - conception, comprehending
CONCEPTUS - concept, conflux, collecting, gathering
CONCIPERE - to take, to receive, to perceive, to conceive, to think, to perceive
CONCRETUM - concrete, real, definite
CONDITIO - condition, creation
CONFESSIO - confession
CONIUNGERE - to conjoin
CONTEMPLATIO - contemplation
CONTINGENS - contingent, possible
CONTINUUM - continuum
CONTRADICTORIA - contradictories
CONTRAHERE - to contract, to limit
CONTRARIA - contraries
CONTUERE - to behold, to see
CONVENIENTIA - agreement, relation
CONVERTI - to be converted
CORRUPTIO - corruption, destruction
CORRUPTUM - corrupted, destroyed
CREATURA - creature, creation
CREDO - to believe, crede
CULTURA - culture, cultivation, education

D

DEFECTUS - deffect, weakness
DEFINITIO - definition
DEFINITIO NOMINIS - definition of name, nominal definition
DEFINITIO REI - definition of the thing, real definition
DEIFORMIS - deiform, godlike
DEIFORMITAS - deiformity
DELIBERATIO - deliberation, consideration
DEMONSTRATIO - demonstration
DEMONSTRATIO PROPTER QUID - demonstration based on the nature of the thing investigated
DEMONSTRATIO QUIA - demonstration based on the effect
DENOMINATIVE - denominatively
DESCRIPTIO - description
DETERMINATE - determinately
DIALECTICA - dialectic
DICTIO - diction, saying
DIFFERENS - differring
DIFFERENS NUMERO - differing in number
DIFFERENTIA - difference
DIFFERENTIA COMMUNIS - common difference
DIFFERENTIA PROPRIA - proper difference
DIFFERENTIA MAXIME PROPRIA - most proper difference
DIFFINITIO - definition
DIFFINITIO SUBSTANTIALIS - substantial definition
DIFFINITIO QUID NOMINIS - nominal definition
DIFFINITIO QUID REI - definition of the thing, real definition
DESCENSUS PER DEFINITIONEM - descent by definition
DILECTIO - love, choice
DIRECTE - directly
DISCERNERE - to discern, to distinguish
DISCIPLINA - discipline, knowledge, subject
DISCIPLINATUS - disciplined
DISCRETIO - discretion, discretness
DISCRETIO PERSONALIS - personal discretion
DISCURSUS - discourse, speach
DISIUNGERE - to disjoin
DISPOSITIO - disposition
DISPONENS (MEDIUME) - disposing medium
DISPUTATIO - disputation, discussion, investigation
DISTINCTIO - distinction
DISTINCTUM - distinct
DIVERSUM - diverse
DIVERSUM - difference
NON DIFFERENTES PROPRIE SED TANTUM DIVERSAE - not differing in the proper sense of the word but only diverse
DIVERSIFICATIO - diversification, diversity
DIVERSIVOCA - diversivocal
DIVIDERE - to divide, to separate
DIVIDUALIA - dividuals
DIVISIO - division, resolution
DOCTRINA - doctring, teaching, area of study
DONUM - gift, faculty
SEPTEM DONA SPIRITUS SANCTI - the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit

E

EFFECTIVE - effectively, in effect
EFFECTUS - effect
EFFICIENS (MEDIUM) - efficient medium
ELEMENTUM - element
ELENCHUS - elenchus, Socratic examination
EMINENTER - eminently
ENS - that which is, the thing which is, a being
ENS NATURAE - thing of nature, that which is in nature, natural thing
ENS RATIONIS - that which is in reason, a thing of reason
ENTHYMEMA - enthymeme (an informally stated syllogism)
ENTITUS - entity
ENUNCIATIO (ENUNTIATIO) - enunciation, declaration
ENUNTIATIONIS VERITAS - truth of statement
ERROR - error, mistake, departing from truth, delusion
ESSE - being
ESSENDI - of being, pertaining to being
ESSENTIA - essence
ESSENTIALITER - essentially
EVIDENTER - evidently
EVIDENTIA - evidence
EXEMPLAR - exemplar, pattern, model, image
EXISTIMATIO - estimation, opinion
EXPERIENTIA - experience, experiment
EXPERIMENTUM - experience, experiment

F

FABRICA - art, trade, skillful production, image
FACERE - to do, to act
FACTIO - making
FACULTAS - faculty
FALSIGRAFIS - falsigraphic
FALSUM - false, erroneous, wrong
FICTIO - fiction, fabrication
FIDES - faith
FIGURA - figure
FINIS - end
FINIS OPERIS - end of the operation
FINIS OPERANTIS - end of the one who performs the operation
FORMA - form
FORMA SEPARATA - separated form
FORMABILIS - apt to be formed or fashioned, subject to form, formable
FORMALITER - formally
FRUCTUS - fruit

G

GENERATIO - generation
GENUS - genus
GENERALISSIMUM - generalissimum, most general genus
GLOSSA (GLOSSEMA) - gloss, obsolete or foreign word that requires explanation

H

HABERE - to have, condition, state
HABITUDO - condition, aptitude, relation, respect, capacity for something
HABITUS - condition, habit, character
HAECCEITAS - haecceity, hecceity, “thisness”

I

IDEA - idea
IDEM - the same
IDENTITAS - identity
IDOLUM SEU FANTASMA - idol, fantasm
ID QUOD EST - that which is
IGNORANTIA - ignorance
ILLUMINATIO - illumination
ILLUMINATIO SCIENTIALIS - scientific illumination
IMAGINATIO - imagination
IMAGINARI - to be imaged
IMAGO - image
IMPLICATIO - implication
INCARNATIO - incarnation
INCOMPLEXUM - incomplex
INCOMPOSSIBILE - incompossible
INCONTINGENS - incontingent
INDIFFERENTER - indifferently
INDIFFERENTIA - indifference
INDISTANTIA - proximity, indistance
INDIVIDUARI - to be individuated
INDIVIDUATIO - individuation
INDIVIDUUM - individual
INDIVISIO - indivision, unity
INFERENTIA - inference
INFINITUM - infinitum, infinity
INFORMARE - to inform, to fill
INFORMATIO - information
INHAERENTIA - inherence
INSPIRARE - inspire
INSTAR - image, likeness
INTELLECTUALE - the intellectual (thing)
INTELLECTUS - intellect, understanding, meaning, conception, idea
INTELLECTUS ADEPTUS - acquired intellect
INTELLECTUS AGENS - active intellect
INTELLECTUS FORMALIS - formal intellect
INTELLECTUS POSSIBILIS - possible intellect
INTELLECTUS PRACTICUS - practical intellect
INTELLECTUS SPECULATIVUS - speculative intellect
INTELLEGERE - to perceive, to undestand
INTELLIGENTIA - understanding, intelligence
INTELLIGENTIA SEPARATA - seperated intelligence
INTENDERE - to intend
INTENSIVE - intensively
INTENTIO - intention, knowledge, meaning
INTENTIONALE ESSE - intentional being
INTENTIO PRIMA - first intention
INTENTIO SECUNDA - second intention
INTENTIA GENERALIS - general intention
INTENTIONIS RES - a thing of intention
INTUITUS - intuition, intuitive knowledge
INVENTIO - invention, discovery
INVOLUCRUM - involucre, covering, case
IUDICIUM - judgment
IUS - right

L

LECTIO - lection , reading
LEX - law
LIBER - book
LOCUS - place
LUMEN - illumination, light
LUX - light

M

MALUM - evil, sin
MANERIES - manner
MANUDUCTIO - manuduction, leading by the hand
MATERIA - matter
MATERIALIS - material
MATERIALITER - materially
MATHEMATICA - mathematics
MEDIUM - middle, medium, mean
MEMORIA - memory,
MEMORATIVA VIRTUS - memorative faculty
MENS - mind
MERITUM - merit
MODUS - mode
MOTUS - motion, movement
MOTUS NATURALIS - natural motion
MOTUS VIOLENTUS - violent motion
MUNDUS - universe, world
MUTATIO - mutation, change

N

NATURA - nature
NECESSARIUM - necessary
NECESSITAS - necessity
NEGATIO - negation
NIHIL - nothing
NOMEN - word, significative word, noun, name
NOMINATIO - nomination
NOTIO - notion, conception
NOTITIA - knowledge, cognition, idea
NOVITAS - newness
NUMERUS - number

O

OBIECTIVUM - objective (in the mind), formal
OBIECTUM - object
OPERATIO - operation
OPINIO - opinion
OPPOSITIO - opposition, contradictory
OPPOSITUM - opposite
OPUS - work
ORATIO - discourse
ORDO - order

P

PARADOXA - paradox
PARS - part
PARTICIPATIO - participation
PARTICULARE - particular
PASSIO - passion, sufferring
PATI - to suffer, to undergo, to receive
PATIENS - patient
PECCATUM - sin
PERFECTIO - perfection
PERFECTIVUM - perfective
PER SE - essentially, substantially, through itself
PERITIA - expertness, learning, experience
PERSONA - person
PERSUASIO - persuasion
PHANTASIA - phantasy
PONERE - to affirm, to posit
POSITIO - affirmation, position, thesis
POSSE - to be able
POSSIBILITAS - possibility
POSTPRAEDICAMENTUM - postpraedicament, postcategory
POTENTIA - power, potency, potentiality
POTESTAS - power, might
PRAEDICABILE - predicable
PRAEDICABILIS ET SUBJICIBILIS - predicable and subjectible
PRAEDICAMENTA - the categories
PRAEDICAMENTALE - predicamental, categorical
PRAEDICARE - to predicate, to name
PRAEDICATIO - predication
PRAXIS - praxis, actions
PRINCIPIUM - principle, beginning
PRIVATIO - privation, deficiency
PROBABILIS - probable
PROPORTIO - proportion
PROPORTIONALITAS - proportionality
PROPOSITIO - proposition
PROPOSITIO PER SE NOTA - proposition known through itself
PROPRIETAS - property
PROPRIUM - proper to, peculiar to, property
PROPTER QUID - q.v. Argumentum a priori.
PROVIDENTIA - providence, foresight

Q

QUADRIVIUM - quadrivium
QUALITAS - quality
QUANDO - when, time
QUANTITAS - quantity
QUIA - q.v. ARGUMENTUM A POSTERIORI.
QUID - what
QUIDDITAS - quiddity
QUIES - rest

R

RAPTUS - rapture
RATIO - reason, nature, relation, principle, ground, argument, definition, criterion
RATIO REI - the essens of the thing
RATIO SEMINALIS - seminal reason
RATIO AETERNA - eternal reason
RATIONABILITER - reasonably
RATIOCINATIO - reasoning, ratiocination
RATIONALE - the rational
RATIONALITER - rationally
RECEPTUM - recept
RECIPERE - to receive, to be impacted
RECTIFICATUM - rectified
RECTITUDO - regularity, righteousness
REFLEXE - reflexively
RELATIO - relation
REMINISCENTIA - reminiscence
REMITTI - to remit
REMOTIO - denial, removal, withdrawing
REMOVERE - to remove, to deny
RES - thing
RES SUBIECTA - subject thing
RESPECTUS - in respect to
RESOLVERE - to resolve
REVELATIO - revelation

S

SANTA SCRIPTURA - Holy Writ
SAPIENTIA - sapience, wisdom
SCIBILE - knowable
SCIENTIA - knowledge, scientific knowledge, science
SCIENTIA EXPERIMENTALIS - experimental science
SCIENTIA PRACTICA - practical science
SCIENTIA SPECULATIVA - speculative science
SCIRE - to know, to understand, to perceive
SENSIBILE - the sensible
SENSUS - sense
SENSUS EXTERNI - external senses
SENSUS INTERNI - internal senses (or SENSUS INTERIOR, interior sense)
SENSUS COMMUNIS - common sense
SENSUS CORPOREUS - corporeal sense
SENSUS SPIRITUALIS - spiritual sense
SENTENTIA - sentence
SERMO - sermon, oration, speech
SIC et NON - yes and no
SIGNIFICATIO - signification, meaning
SIGNIFICATIONIS VERITAS - truth of signification
SIGNUM - sign
SIMILITUDO - likeness, similitude
SIMPLICITER - simply, absolutely
SINGULARE - singular
SINGULARITAS - singularity
SITUS - position, situation, disposition
SPATIUM - space
SPECIALISSIMUM (SPECIES INFIMA) - the lowest species, the most special species
SPECIES - species, form
SPECIES INTENTIONALIS - intentional species
SPECIES CORPOREA - corporeal species
SPECIES INTELLIGIBILIS - intelligibilis species
SPECIES EXPRESSA - express species
SPECIES IMPRESSA - impressed species
SPECIES SENSIBILIS - sensible species
SPECIES LOGICA - logical species
SPECIES PRAEDICABILIS - predicable species
SPECIFICARE - to specify, to specificate
SPECIFICATIO - specification
SPECIFICATIVUM - specificative
SPECULATIO - speculation
SPIRITUS - spirit
SPIRITUS SANCTUS - Holy Spirit
STATUS - state, condition
SUBALTERNA GENERA - subordinate genuses
SUBIECTIVUM - subjective
SUBIECTUM - subject
SUBIICI ALIQUIBUS PRAEDICATIS - to be a subject having certain predicates
SUBIICIBILIS - subjectible
SUBSISTENTIA - subsistence
SUBSTANTIA - substance
SUBSTANTIA CONIUNCTA - conjunct substance
SUBSTANTIA PRIMA - first substance
SUBSTANTIA SECUNDA - second substance
SUBSTANTIA SEPARATA - separated substance
SUBSTANTIA SUBIECTA - subjectible substance
SUBSTITUTIO - substitution
SUBSTARE - to underlie
SUICIDUM - suicide
SUPPONERE - to suppose, to hypothesize, to stand for
SUPPOSITIO - suppositio, premise
SUPPOSITUM - subject, subordinate, suppositum
SUSCEPTIO - a taking on, susception, assumption
SUSCIPERE - to assume, to take on
SYLLOGISMUS - syllogism
SYMBOLUM - symbol
SYNCATEGOREMA, SINCATEGOREUMA - syncategorematic term

T

TENERE - to hold, to know
TERMINUS - term
TOPICA - topic
TRADITIO - tradition
TRANSCENDENS - transcendent, transcendental
TRANSCENDENTALES - the transcendentals
TRANSLATIO - translation, transference
TRANSUMPTIO - transumption
TRIVIUM - trivium
TROPUS - trope

U

UBI - where, place
UMBRA - shadow
UNIO - union
UNITAS - unity
UNIVERSALE - universal
UNIVERSALIA (COMMUNIA) - universals
UNIVERSITAS - whole (of things)
UNIVOCA (OR UNIVOCALIS) - univocal
UNIVOCATIO - univocation
UNUM - one
USIADIS - substantial

V

VERBUM - word, verb
VERITAS - truth
VERITAS COMPOSITIONIS - truth of composition
VERUM - the true
VESTIGIUM - footprint, vestige, trace
VIATOR - wayfarer, one on the way
VIRTUS - power, virtue
VIRTUS AFFECTIVA - affective power
VIRTUS APPREHENSIVA - apprehensive power
VIS - power, faculty, strength
VOLUNTAS - will
VOX - word, spoken word, voice