carpe diem
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]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/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file)
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
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]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
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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 Latin) 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
Portuguese
[edit]Proverb
[edit]- seize the day (enjoy the present)
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