Latin word meaning 'to us' or 'for us,' most commonly encountered in religious texts and classical Latin phrases.
From Latin 'nobis,' the dative case of 'nos' (we/us). This is a direct borrowing from Latin grammar that appears frequently in English religious and academic texts.
'Nobis' appears in one of the most famous Catholic prayers—'Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis'—and English speakers who never studied Latin still remember it from church, showing how Latin survives in English through religious and formal traditions!
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