carpe diem
English edit
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Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin carpe diem (“enjoy the day”, literally “pluck (or harvest) the day”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌkɑː.piː ˈdaɪ.ɛm/,[1] IPA(key): /ˌkɑː.peɪ ˈdiː.əm/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌkɑɹ.pi ˈdaɪ.ɛm/, IPA(key): /ˌkɑɹ.peɪ ˈdi.əm/
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Proverb edit
carpe diem
- Enjoy the present, make the most of today, (common mistranslation) seize the day.
- 1905, G. K. Chesterton, Heretics[1], New York: John Lane, →OL:
- It is the carpe diem religion; but the carpe diem religion is not the religion of happy people, but of very unhappy people.
- 2007 July 30, Lee Harris, “Can Carpe Diem Societies Survive?”, in The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 241:
- Indeed, in an extreme carpe diem society, children are raised without being given any sense that they have a transgenerational duty to the as yet unborn— the duty to leave them a better world.
- 2011 January 29, “Rollercoaster: The Musical!” (“Carpe Diem” (song)), in Phineas and Ferb, season 2, episode 38:
- Just grab those opportunities when you see 'em / Cause every day's a brand new day, you gotta carpe diem
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seize the day
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See also edit
- opportunity seldom knocks twice
- take the bull by the horns
- the world is one's oyster
- YOLO
- Category:Carpe diem on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
References edit
- ^ “carpe diem”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From the end of the poem Odes I.11 by Horace, ancient Roman poet.
- Sapiās, vīna liquēs, et spatio brevī
- spem longam resecēs. Dum loquimur, fūgerit invidā
- aetās. Carpe diem quam minimum crēdula posterō.
- Be wise, make wine, and in a short time,
- lose any great hope. As we speak, time is cruelly slipping away.
- Enjoy the day, believing the least in the future.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkar.pe ˈdi.em/, [ˈkärpɛ ˈd̪iɛ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkar.pe ˈdi.em/, [ˈkärpe ˈd̪iːem]
Phrase edit
- carpe diem, enjoy the day; (common mistranslation) seize the day
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Proverb edit
- seize the day (enjoy the present)