Questions tagged [sentence-translation]
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May they rest in peace
This may become an inscription written on a historical marker commemorating a mass grave. Which of the following is correct: Requiesce in Pace or Requiescant in Pace? The former was offered up by a ...
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“If you can breath, you can stand. If you can stand, you can fight.”
I'm trying to help my sister. She heard this phrase that she like to have tattooed but she wanted it to be in Latin.
Now I haven't been practicing for a few years so I could use with some help.
The ...
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How do you translate “Don't Fear the Reaper” into Latin?
In T. Pratchett's Discworld series, Death's motto is "Non Timetis Messor", meant to be a translation of "Don't Fear the Reaper". But in other books he uses "Timetere", and I am unsure of which would ...
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“Opusculum hoc, quamdiu vixero, doctioribus emendandum offero.”?
I found the following quote at the beginning of a book on Indo-European linguistics:
"Opusculum hoc, quamdiu vixero, doctioribus emendandum offero." (Iunius, Observationes)
I'm trying to figure ...
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What is the best Latin translation for “Love and intellect will prevail”?
How do we say " Love and intellect will prevail" in Latin? Thank you very much for your time.
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Does this sentence I constructed with my junior high school latin work? I write online advertising and want to come off as snobby as possible
Essentially, I want to say something like:
"If you read this, your will will be mine". (In a teasing way like, Who Reads This Is Stupid).
I 'distilled' it as much as possible to "reader beware: your ...
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Classical Greek for 'You came home to our hearts with your shield'?
Sorry I know this is Latin. but I was hoping to find some dual classicists on here.
Could anyone provide me with a classical Greek translation of the sentence:
"You came home to our hearts with your ...
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Is this a question or an affirmation?
Reading the Digest (6th century, copy of 9th century), I find this sentence:
Sed si plures servum percusserint, utrum omnes quasi occiderint teneantur videamus.
One author who established the text ...
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Sentences with no verb, but an ablative
Sometimes I will run across sentences that have no verb, but there is an ablative and I am not sure about the right approach to assuming a verb. For example, in this 16th century sentence:
Erat ...
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Grammar of “Nec huic publico, ut opinantur, malo turba tantum et imprudens uulgus ingemuit”
I'm a novice trying to learn Latin, and I hope this question is appropriate to this forum (please let me know if it is not the case).
I tried to read this section from De Brevitate Vitae (text here):...
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How do I translate “Putting many ducks into space”?
I'm trying to find how to say "Putting many ducks into space" in the most proper way, but I have very little experience in Latin and so the different forms of words are somewhat confusing to me. What ...
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Meaning of “amore honora, libertatem cura” [closed]
What is the closest meaning of this statement?
Single comma there is intentional, it's not an enumeration. I understand that liberty cures, but struggling to connect the two words in first part.
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English to Latin translation
I'm a beginner in Latin language studies, and I wanted to translate a sentence from English to Latin. I'm a self-taught student, and since it's for something important, I'd like it to be right.
The ...
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Such A Precedent
In the TV series, "I Claudius" (BBC, 1976) there was a scene in which the Ambassador, Appius Iunius Silanus, attempts to assassinate Emperor Claudius (occupational hazard) and fails. In the aftermath, ...
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Feedback on Latin to English Translation
I am currently learning Latin and is a beginner. However, I am unsure of my answers and is looking for help to proofread and provide suggestions for improvement. Would appreciate all feedback I ...
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Looking for a direct quote from Heraclitus expressing that everything changes
I am in search of a direct quote (as close as possible) from Heraclitus that expresses the idea that life is flux -or- everything changes. With the help of this website I have been told that ...
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Looking for Correct Greek Translation for Heraclitus
I have found this quote in a variety of sources, but am wary of the Greek translation (knowing nothing of greek in its many forms over the years) COuld someone help me correctly find the original ...
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Translation norms: a dash instead of “esse”
What option is preferable in the translation of a phrase, say, "bad thoughts give rise/lead to bad results" in your opinion?
Option 1: cogitationes malae – praemia mala
Option 2:
cogitationes malae ...
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Translate “Quiet your mind”
I want a proper translation for the English sentence:
"Quiet your mind"
and also
"Quiet yourself"
I mean this in the sense of calming your mind and yourself. I want this to be translated as a ...
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Gerundive Confusion
North & Hillard Ex. 196: the following is to be translated into Latin: "He (Hannibal) had almost reached the top of the Alps, when some old men came to him in the guise of envoys. The misfortunes ...
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“The ignorance and the hubris (arrogance) of our adversaries is our biggest asset.”
I would like to translate the sentence
The ignorance and the hubris (arrogance) of our adversaries is our biggest asset.
into Latin. Google translations do not seem to be entirely correct and I ...
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Conjugation/grammar for fictitious title
In a work of fiction, I have an Order of ordained detectives that do not exist. I use the term Lictor Rebus Sanctorae for the Order, and Lictor Rebus Sanctorus for the male protagonist. I know this ...
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“Explaining oneself” in Classical Latin
How should I say in Classical Latin the following phrases?
"Explain yourself!"
"I didn't explain myself well", "I didn't make myself / wasn't clear"
I've been thinking of the verbs explico and ...
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Translating 'creative by nature' / 'naturally creative' into latin
I would like to know the meaning of 'creative by nature' or 'naturally creative' in latin. According to google translater it is 'natura partum', but when translated back into english it means ...
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Translating “Father knows beer best” into Latin
I'm making a label for my dad's homebrew as a Christmas gift and I'd love to include "Father knows beer best" in Latin as the motto of his company. Could anybody help translate that for me?
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How to say “of the” as in “Church of The Blessed Virgin” with the sense of “belonging to” or “patronage”?
I would be glad if anyone could help me how to translate the name "Church of the Virgin Mary" or at least how to place "of the" in the sense of "belonging in patronage" in such contexts? Other ...
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Reflexive Pronouns
North & Hillard; Ex. 195: the following is to be translated into Latin: "But, since his men had found no water to drink for many hours, they could not be restrained from rushing into the water, ...
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How do you translate this sentence (I thought I knew something, then I realised I knew nothing) to Latin?
I want to translate "I thought I knew something, then I realised I knew nothing" into Latin. The result I got from Google translate is this "Quod cogitavi cognovi: tunc animadvertebam nihil scirem." I ...
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A question about the Swedish “bildning”
(In English below.)
Eftersom det inte finns någon korrekt motsvarighet till ordet ”bildning” i engelskan, kan jag bara ställa denna fråga på svenska.
Finns det något latinskt uttryck som motsvarar ”...
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Pliny 8.95 - Translation question
I'm in a second semester latin class (hence this might be considered a beginner question) and I have a question about what to me at least is a translation conundrum. The phrase in question, Pliny 8.95,...
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What is 'leading the way day and night' in Latin?
This is the motto for my Dad's SWAT team. They wanted to have a Latin translation and which could be put on a shirt, and possibly their new badge.
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Case of the adjective in “made someone more something”
In A new latin composition by Charles E. Bennett one may find following statement to translate into latin (from Lesson IV):
This circumstance made the troops more courageous.
My attempt at ...
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How to get “almost everything” from “vix non quaedam” in this translation of a sentence from J.J. Fux?
I'm trying to understand an English translation of a Latin sentence from J.J. Fux's Gradus ad Parnasum (written in Latin in 1725).
Here is the sentence:
Tuâ aviditate, quam tamen laudo, fit, ut ...
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Translation of a phrase “Catch the moment, …” to Latin
I hope someone who speaks Russian could help me in translating a phrase "Лови момент. Цени мгновение." into Latin. I'm afraid the original meaning could be lost or transformed if I translate it to ...
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Translating “jerusalem duplici jugo gravata” into English
What does this mean?
jerusalem duplici jugo gravata
Ekkehard of Aura was the monk in medieval. He departed to the crusades of 1101. This sentence is from his book Hierosolimita in RHC V, PP. 1-40.
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Correct paraphrase of “navigare necesse est” to “angling is necessary”?
Is 'piscantur necesse est' a correct adaptation of the well-known Plutarch maxim 'navigare necesse est'?
I would like to say "angling is necessary", but I am unsure whether it remains correct after my ...
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How to write “Stand on the shoulders of giants” correctly? [duplicate]
I know that "nanos gigantium humeris insidentes" is "dwarves on the shoulders of giants".
But what is the properly written way of saying either "on the shoulders of giants" and/or "standing on the ...
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Ablative considered as an accusative
In my Latin-Italian dictionary I found this expression:
arva sanguineo gyro scribo
that is translated as:
I draw a blood circle on the ground.
But, gyro is an ablative. Why is it considered as ...
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Is “responsum est dilectio” the correct translation for “love is the answer”?
Is "responsum est dilectio" the correct translation for "love is the answer"?
The translation comes from Google Translate, but I can't find any proof or usage of the sentence which kind of makes me a ...
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Tastes Like Chicken
What Latin I know I've sort-of assimilated from being fluent in Spanish and having some knowledge of French, as well as a life-long interest in English etymology (not a strong foundation for Latin, I ...
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Seeing The Wood For The Trees
North & Hillard Ex. 190; Q1: "While they were cutting down the wood the enemy came upon them."
The answer: "dum silvam succidunt eos hostis adoritur."
The instruction given by N & H, p.146: ...
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The proper phrase with “adeptus”
As far as I know adeptus means "the one who achieved something", in participial form. mēta means "goal" or "turning point", figuratively.
What is the proper combination of them with the meaning "the ...
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Cum plus Subjunctive
North & Hillard, Ex. 189; Q5:"The citizens were almost dead of starvation, when relief arrived."
Answer: "cives fame paene mortui sunt cum auxilium advenit."
Firstly, I put mortui erant - the-...
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Translation verification
I’m wondering whether my translation is correct.
I wrote:
tempus fugit; sed muscae fugiunt etiam.
I meant for this to mean:
Time flies, but flies fly too.
I really don't have any knowledge ...
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A phrase of L. Euler on functions
I'm trying to understand the following sentence from Leonhard Euler's Institutionum calculi integralis Vol. III Chap. 2, bottom of p.40:
Huiusmodi functiones arbitrarias, prouti hic feci, eiusmodi ...
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Translating “We see great fortune in your daughters' lives, my friend”
So I'm just learning Latin, and I'm not sure if I got this translation right. Whenever you use 'in' in Latin, the predicate noun is refers to and the noun the follows it has to have the same form ...
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How to translate “in truth, beauty”
How should I translate "in truth, beauty" to Latin? It is similar to how in vino veritas means "in wine, truth." I don't know much about Latin and Google Translate wasn't very helpful. It suggested ...
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How to say “not safe for work” in Latin?
A friend of mine and I are trying to create a Latin language equivalent of the English acronym "NSFW", meaning "not safe for work". So far we have:
Non tutus ad officina
I don't know if this is ...
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What would be a translation for “To have is better than not to have”?
I'm looking for a translation for "To have is better than not to have", which I want to use as a sort of motto for a project I'm doing. I have already asked some friends to help me, and they proposed "...
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A few L. Euler phrases to translate
I have a few Latin sentences from very old mathematical works by Leonard Euler. There is no their translation in the net. I do have their rough interpretation but need more precise and careful one. ...
