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omnia vincit amor

[ ohm-nee-ah weeng-kit ah-mohr; English om-nee-uh vin-sit ey-mawr ]

Latin.
  1. love conquers all.


omnia vincit amor

/ ˈɒmnɪə ˈvɪnsɪt ˈæmɔː /

(no translation)

  1. love conquers all things
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of omnia vincit amor1

from Virgil's Eclogues 10:69
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Example Sentences

His message ended with a Latin phrase, “Omnia vincit amor,” love conquers all, three words that were engraved on Ms. Eman’s gold engagement ring.

“Omnia vincit Amor,” he claims, and it really does.

Prescott was an inveterate punster, and his puns were almost invariably bad; but when his bachelor friends reproached him for his desertion of them, he laughed and answered them with the Vergilian line,— "Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus Amori"— a play upon words which Thackeray independently chanced upon many years later in writing Pendennis, and � propos of a very different Miss Amory.

A mezzotint of a physician, who attending a sick patient in bed is attacked by a group of Deaths bearing standards, inscribed “Despair,” “l’amour,” “omnia vincit amor,” and “luxury.”

There are some current-season shoes, some soaps, some “Omnia vincit amor” pendants from House of Waris.

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