omnia vincit amor

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

Latin.

1. love conquers all.

omnia vincit amor

/ ˈɒmnɪə ˈvɪnsɪt ˈæmɔː /

1. love conquers all things

Word History and Origins

Origin of omnia vincit amor¹

from Virgil's Eclogues 10:69

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.

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

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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.

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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.”

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

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