Talk:Roma locuta est, causa finita est
Latest comment: 3 years ago by -sche in topic RFC discussion: March 2016–February 2021
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Language: English
Part of speech: Adjective
Definition:
- {{sense|idiom}} A statement meaning an end of a discussion.
Added by a notoriously incompetent IP who managed to get a little bit of everything wrong. There may be something worth salvaging in this, but I'm not sure if it's English or Latin, and not 100% sure that it's not SOP. They provided a link to an article on a Roman Catholic website as a reference, which suggests that this is in use among Catholics. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:06, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
- I've seen this phrase before, it's an old maxim that (if I recall correctly) pre-dates the RC / protestant schism, that says that in matters of canon law &c. decisions of the bishop of Rome are final. Nowadays in protestant circles mostly quoted as an example of how not to go about things. I can imagine it could metaphorically also be applied to other cases where someone's word (presumably the word of someone with authority) ends a discussion or dispute, but even so I think the lemma as quoted is confusing and unclear.— This unsigned comment was added by 80.114.147.138 (talk) at 15:10, 10 April 2016 (UTC).
- Seems to have been cleaned up. - -sche (discuss) 23:01, 8 February 2021 (UTC)