usque
Noun
Meaning
usque (countable and uncountable, plural usques)
(obsolete) whisky
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Adam of Bremen himself compared the sea with a belt, stating that it is so named because it stretches through the land as a belt (Balticus, eo quod in modum baltei longo tractu per Scithicas regiones tendatur usque in Greciam).
The homage is then a separate issue, since, according to the chronicle of Thietmar, Mieszko actually paid tribute to the Emperor from the lands usque in Vurta fluvium (up to the Warta River).
Similarly Canada 's motto "A mari usque ad mare" (from sea to sea) and most provincial mottos are also in Latin ( British Columbia 's is Splendor Sine Occasu (splendor without diminishment)).
Ab initio Christianæ ibidem Religionis, ad nostram usque ætatem Councils, Decrees, Laws, Constitutions, Regarding the Churches of the Britannic Sphere.
The opening remarks are still widely remembered and used after 2000 years: Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?