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ubi - (Latin) when (interrogative pronoun).

Ulysseus - see Odysseus.

ultima verba - (Latin) the final argument; this phrase indicates what we might term “the straw that broke the camel’s back”; Louis XIV of France has the phrase “ultima ratio regum” or the “last word of kings” inscribed upon his cannons, indicating that lethal force was his final argument.

ultio - (Latin) the word means punishment, but more specifically it means punishment in the sense of revenge.

unde - (Latin) from where (interrogative pronoun.

urbanitas - (Latin) refinement, urbanity, elegance; urbanitas is generally opposed to the roughness associated with country life.

uxor - (Latin) wife; a wife in Roman society would generally be under the control of the paterfamilias, or the male head of the household; she would enter into connubium (marriage) with her husband.