"Rather Die than be betrayed"
Amsterdams Lyceum's motto is 'Potius deficere quam desperare'.
The English meaning of the Latin sentence 'Quam bellum est velle confiteri potius nescire' is the following: How beautiful it is to wish not to [have to] know how to acknowledge something [as] stronger. The word-by-word translation is as follows: 'quam' means 'how'; 'bellum' means 'beautiful'; 'est' means '[it] is'; 'velle' means 'to wish'; 'confiteri' means 'to acknowledge, admit or confess'; 'potius' means 'to be able to or capable of'; and 'nescire' means 'not to know, to be ignorant of'. The phrase expresses the wish to be so stronger that there's no such thing as someone or something higher or stronger.
Richard Dace has written: 'Mallem mori quam tadari'
It was derived from a Roman phrase. The Latin saying was: "Mors Ante Infamiam" "infamiam" meaning "infamy". ("dishonour" is a synonym.)Another version of the phrase was: "Potius Mori Quam Foedare," which means "rather to die than to be dishonoured". This was the motto of the Duchy of Brittany. (In Breton it is "Kentoc'h mervel eget bezañ saotret").Breton soldiers and mariners may have brought the motto to England and France in the Middle Ages.The national emblem of Brittany, the ermine, has the same meaning. As the Bretons married into the royal houses of Europe, the use of the ermine spread.
Drimnagh Castle Secondary School's motto is 'Malo Mori Quam Foedari'.
The motto of Busey Bank is 'You See Busey'.
The English meaning of the Latin exclamation 'Quam pulcher est' is How beautiful he is! In the word-by-word translation, the word 'quam' means 'how'. The adjective 'pulcher' means 'beautiful'. The verb 'est' means '[he/she/it] is'.
The Latin phrase Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum estmeans "Behold how good and how pleasing it is".
How beautiful the tunic is!
The girl that I love is beautiful.
Quam singulari was created in 1910.
C-QUAM was created in 1977.