media vita in morte sumus Phrase
Meaning:
In the midst of our lives we die
Comment
A well-known sequence, falsely attributed to Notker during the Middle Ages. It was translated by Cranmer and became a part of the burial service in the funeral rites of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.
Word-for-word analysis:
A much more detailed analysis with detection of relationships or clauses can be found in our Sentence Analysis! Try it out!
More Information
Embed this entry on your siteVocabulary Groups:
Find more Latin words with our Advanced Search functionality.
"-" is the shortcut for "this form does not exist"
For Students
Most phrases were taken from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons License.