Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
motto of the United States, being one nation formed by uniting several states, 1782, Latin, from e "out of" (see ex-); ablative plural of plus "more" (see plus (n.)); neuter of unus "one" (see one). Not found in classical Latin, though a variant of the phrase appears in Virgil (color est e pluribus unum); the full phrase was the motto of the popular "Gentleman's Magazine" from 1731 into the 1750s.
Wiktionary
prov. "From many, one", or "out of many, one"
Wikipedia
E pluribus unum (; )— Latin for "Out of many, one" (alternatively translated as "One out of many" or "One from many") — is a 13-letter phrase on the Seal of the United States, along with Annuit cœptis (Latin for "He approves (has approved) of the undertakings") and Novus ordo seclorum (Latin for "New Order of the Ages"), and adopted by an Act of Congress in 1782. Never codified by law, E Pluribus Unum was considered a de facto motto of the United States until 1956 when the United States Congress passed an act (H. J. Resolution 396), adopting " In God We Trust" as the official motto.
E Pluribus Unum is a public artwork proposed by American artist Fred Wilson to be located along the Indianapolis Cultural Trail at the northeast corner of Delaware and Washington streets, near the City-County Building in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Funded solely by private donations and fundraising by the Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF), the sculpture was scheduled to be unveiled on September 22, 2011, the 149th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's initial reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to members of his Cabinet. However, due to an increase of public opposition to the project beginning in September 2010, the future of the statue was discussed in a series of community meetings in 2011. On December 13, 2011 the Central Indiana Community Foundation announced that the project would be canceled.
E Pluribus Unum is the third album by folk guitarist Sandy Bull, released in 1969 through Vanguard Records.
Usage examples of "e pluribus unum".
Throughout the seal the number thirteen is used thirteen times - in the number of stars, clouds around the stars, stripes, arrows, leaves and berries in the olive branches, feathers in the tail, layers of stones in the pyramid, number of letters in E Pluribus Unum and in Annuit Coeptus.
Whether penned with a quill or tapped out on a keyboard, the message is the same: E pluribus unum--From many, one.
Barton accepted these changes but made the central image an eagle with an olive branch in one set of talons and a bundle of arrows gripped in the other, a shield of thirteen stripes, and a scroll inscribed E pluribus unum (One from many) in its beak.
They had only begun to see in their own nature the literal embodiment of e pluribus unum that described the L’.
They had only begun to see in their own nature the literal embodiment of e pluribus unum that described the L'vrai.
Around these was a circle of beading, between the beading and the smooth unmilled edge of the coin, the legend E PLURIBUS UNUM.