Genealogy Latin Dictionary
Below is a list of genealogy latin terms.
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| Latin Phrase | Abbreviation |
English Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Laus Deo | praise be to God | |
| loca citato | loc. cit. |
in the place cited |
| literati | men of letters | |
| long tempore | for a long time | |
| Magister Artium | MA |
master of arts |
| magna cum laude | with great distinction | |
| mane | in the morning | |
| mare nostrum | our sea (Mediterranean) | |
| marita | wife | |
| maritus | husband | |
| martimonium | marriage | |
| mater | mother | |
| matrina fuit | the godmother was | |
| mea culpa | through my own fault | |
| memento | to remember | |
| memento mori | a reminder of the inevitability of death | |
| memorabilia | memorable objects | |
| meridie | noon | |
| mensis | month | |
| millennium | a period of one thousand years | |
| modus agenda | the way in which a thing operates | |
| modus operandi | m.o. |
the way in which something works |
| moratorium | a temporary suspension of an activity | |
| mortutous, mors, mortis | death | |
| mortuus | dead | |
| mutatis mutandis | change only those things that need to be changed | |
| mutato nominee | the name being changed |
