Top 10 Latin facts

Prussia. The name Borussia comes from Latin and means Prussia.

Chromium. The name of chromium means colour in Greek. Its compounds are used as pigments, including chrome yellow which had been used to paint school buses and chromium oxides used as a green color in glassmaking. Natural rubies are colored red due to chromium ions.

Divide and rule (from Latin dīvide et imperā), or divide and conquer, in politics and sociology is gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into pieces that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy. The concept refers to a strategy that breaks up existing power structures, and especially prevents smaller power groups from linking up, causing rivalries and fomenting discord among the people. It was heavily used by British Empire in India and elsewhere.

Handy man. The name of homo habilis indicates that it was the first human ancestor which used and created stone tools.

Towards. Literally, “versus” means "in the direction of". The word is often erroneously used in English for "against", probably as the truncation of "adversus"

Ante Meridiem. “Ante meridiem” is Latin for “before noon”. Although “AM/PM” is especially common in English-speaking countries, these acronyms come actually from Latin.

In the glass. “In vitro” means the medical procedure takes place in the laboratory, opposite to “in vivo” - meaning “in the body”.

Go with me. The term is today used for handbooks, but a “vademecum” may be any helpful thing one carries around.

To the city and the world. “Urbi et Orbi” means literally “To the city (meaning Rome) and the circle (meaning the world outside)”.

White. Albedo in Latin is simply "whiteness". It is the reflecting power of a surface - the ratio of reflected radiation from the surface to incident radiation upon it.