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Is there a Latin equivalent for this particular nsfw term?

The place to look these things up is J.N. Adams, The Latin Sexual Vocabulary (1982). There's a discussion of terms for orgasm starting on p. 142. As Manuel says, the most common verb is patrāre, lit. &...
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Saying "Goodbye!" to a deceased person

For a famous poetic example, take Catullus, Carmina 101: Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus   advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias, ut te postremo donarem munere mortis   et mutam ...
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How would you say "body" as in when stating a law of physics?

Yes, corpus is correct for "body" in the sense used in physics. That is the word Newton used in his laws of motion: Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiescendi vel movendi uniformiter ...
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How would you say "A butterfly is landing on a flower." in Latin?

I would guess what you heard in the song is based on the French verb atterrir. Il atterrira means he/it will land. This verb was invented by the French and has no direct Latin equivalent, as far as I ...
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What is the Latin word for "diagram"?

There are two words that come to mind: figura or schema. Indeed in medieval Astronomy Kepler uses both of them. Let us have two examples from his work Astronomia Nova: Nec verbis opus est. Schema ...
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Is there a Latin equivalent for this particular nsfw term?

One other set of verbs relating to orgasm you'll see far more frequently than patrare relate to urination. Adams lists a few well-known examples in Latin, including Catullus 67.40 (qui ipse sui gnati ...
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How would you say "to see things from up above" in Latin?

The adverb you are looking for is desuper (or, much more rarely, desursum). Here's a close parallel from the Aeneid: Aetheria tum forte plaga crinitus Apollo desuper Ausonias acies urbemque uidebat ...
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Would "motor oil" (such as in a car engine) be "oleum" or "unguentum" or something else?

Rock oils, now called by the modern Greek-Latin word, petroleum, were in ancient times called bitumen by the Romans: Babylone lacus amplissima magnitudine, qui limne asphaltitis appellatur, habet ...
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How do you say "on" as in "The book is on the table."?

My first instinct was to use Liber in mēnsā est. In fact, there are several sentences of this exact form in Hans Ørberg's introductory Latin reader, Lingua Latina per se illustrata, capitulum quartum: ...
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Is there a Latin equivalent for this particular nsfw term?

The poets came up with various euphemisms to describe orgasms. In the Aeneid when Venus asks her husband to forge weapons for Aeneas (8.370-406), Vulcan is initially reluctant, but then she starts ...
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How to say 'I miss you' in Latin

There are several ways to say this; what to say exactly depends on context and to a certain extent your mood... They all tend to revolve around the word desiderare or desiderium. The simplest way ...
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How do you say "graveside" and "gravestone" in Latin?

The Medieval Stabat Mater has these lines: Stabat mater dolorosa iuxta crucem lacrimosa dum pendebat filius Which is translated as: His sorrowful mother was standing next to the cross, full of ...
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How would you say "denier" in Latin?

I would write something like: qui negat lunam esse. I would avoid lunae negator for a number of reasons: negator is not classically attested. Nor was it really needed, when it was just as well ...
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How to say "bribe" in Latin?

Since you tagged this question as "ecclesiastical," the first option that comes to mind is munus, muneris. Munus is a generic word for a "gift" (or even a "function" or &...
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How to say 'I miss you' in Latin

There's not one word that expresses this as definitively as English's modern usage, so you have a variety of options, including those that Sebastian listed, and especially if you add something like ...
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How would you say "denier" in Latin?

Lūnae negātor or Lūnae negātiōnista. However -ista suffix is more Greek. (An English synonym of denialism is negationism.)
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What is the Latin word for 'reading sheet'?

The ancient Greeks called this an ἐπιτομή, literally "cutting down". This word was borrowed into Latin as either epitoma (-ae) or epitomē (-ēs), depending on how pretentious you want to be.
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How were ancient books divided?

Greek and Roman works were generally divided into “books” (libri), each book filling one roll of papyrus. So if a work consists of five books, the whole work would be contained on five rolls. Each ...
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Are there well-assimilated Latin words from Semitic languages?

Some more probable direct Phoenician/Punic loanwords: sūfes 'suffete' (a Carthaginian magistrate) from 𐤔𐤐𐤈‎ špṭ 'judge'. Compare Hebrew שׁוֹפֵט‎ šōp̄ēṭ 'judge' (as in the Book of Judges), also a ...
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Reimagining the logical gates in Latin

As far as I know, the names, especially the abbreviated ones you list, are always in English whether or not the surrounding text is in English. Technical abbreviations like this tend to be universal, ...
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What are the antonyms of ob and prae?

("born dual to each other" is strange phrasing. All these prepositions were inherited from Proto-Italic, which inherited them from Proto-Indo-European.) ante and prae, in their basic ...
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How do you say "What do you mean?" in Latin?

It depends on the context. One option is to ask 'Quid dicere vis?' (What do you want to say?) You would use the verb 'significare' as in 'Quid hoc significat?' (What does this mean?)
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How to say "bribe" in Latin?

In a verbal sense, Classical Latin would probably have used suborno (“I induce/incite/suborn”). For a nominal sense, you could use the deverbal derivation with “-io”, subornatio, (“a subornation”, “an ...
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How do I say "semantician/semanticist" in Latin?

There is the adjective semanticus: Designating, having an indicative force, Mart. Cap. 9, §§ 985, 988. Seems as though the only citation is that by 5th-century satirist Martianus Minneus Felix ...
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Are there well-assimilated Latin words from Semitic languages?

To add other possibilities according to Wiktionary (filtering those words that convincingly pass through Ancient Greek): ferrum: [possible Phoenician and maybe through Etruscan] genius: [from Proto-...
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Latin term for 'dramaturge' using the root 'δρᾶμα'

As Draconis mentioned in a comment, this isn't a common word in Classical Latin, but you get it in Late Antique Latin enough, and enough of the Classical Latin authors we have knew Greek, that ...
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How to say "Graduation" in Latin?

In DMLBS (Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources), a dictionary of Medieval Latin, we can find the deponent verb graduārī for "to graduate", and the substantive usage of its ...
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Is there any Neo-Latin word for the concepts of "hacking" and "hacker"?

In the more criminal sense, you could have: fur / praedo computatralis. This describes the activities of e.g. hackers who steal trade secrets or break into computer networks unlawfully, but it would ...
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How do you say "monument" (as opposed to "grave") in Latin?

That's not the correct takeaway from that question, though I can see how that mistake can be made. A monumentum can indeed mean "monument" in our sense. You can see this plainly spelled out, ...
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