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Sentence #2157939

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Selena777 Selena777 October 6, 2015 October 6, 2015 at 3:44:33 PM UTC link Permalink

Is it an idiom?

Selena777 Selena777 October 6, 2015 October 6, 2015 at 3:44:34 PM UTC link Permalink

Is it an idiom?

CK CK October 6, 2015, edited October 6, 2015 October 6, 2015 at 3:57:05 PM UTC, edited October 6, 2015 at 3:57:53 PM UTC link Permalink

Search for the Latin original.

https://www.google.co.jp/search...a%2C+scientia.

Perhaps it would be considered a motto and not a sentence.

User55521 User55521 October 6, 2015, edited October 6, 2015 October 6, 2015 at 4:07:40 PM UTC, edited October 6, 2015 at 4:10:36 PM UTC link Permalink

Since Latin "est" can be safely dropped in most cases, it can be understood as a complete sentence "ex luna, scientia est.", "[The] knowledge is from the Moon". Whatever this means.

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #2157938Ex luna, scientia..

From the Moon, knowledge.

added by loghaD, January 21, 2013

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