Questions tagged [vocabulary]
This tag is for questions concerning the meaning and usage of individual words or a few words in conjunction with each other.
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Use of “in” with ablative
I'm hoping someone can clarify the meaning of the medieval Latin phrase "in ipsa" when referring to a decision or action not being "in" or "upon" someone, which I assume ...
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how to express “indefinite distributive numerals” (“several dollars each”)? is aliquoteni classical?
In answer to the question Quotiens? (How many times), one can respond with aliquotiens (several times). But for the question Quoteni? (How many of each), can he come up with aliquoteni?
For I can't ...
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What is the difference between these two variants of the word?
I am looking for a Latin translation of the word arsonist. Having made translations in various machine translation software it all narrows to two choices. One is incendiarius and the other is ...
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Latin “Basic” Colors and Shades
Salvete Omnes,
While I am working on a Minecraft resource pack that changes the Latin, which hopefully fixes some rough spots in it, I came back to a problem which strikes me occasionally with colors ...
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Can “homo” be used as an impersonal pronoun?
In English, we can say "one must do this" or "one should do that", as a way of referring to any person, not just one person in specific. Can homo be used in a similar fashion in ...
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How did people describe flags and banners using Latin?
This is my first time on the forum, so If there's any tips to get my question answered feel free to share.
I have been working on a Minecraft resource pack that changes the Latin setting, hopefully ...
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What is the best word for “constellation”?
In a previous question about a Cicero quote, he uses the word sidera. Lewis & short give the definition of sidus as:
a group of stars, constellation, heavenly body
Astrum has a similar ...
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Is my translation of “Under the light of the shining star” correct?
I've translated the title "Under the light of the shining star" into Latin:
Sub Lux Astri Lucens
Sub Luce Astri Lucentis
Is this correct? I've not learned participle forms of verbs yet, ...
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Did perveniō acquire a new meaning in Late Antiquity?
Introduction
I am reading an article by Bowersock.¹ In a discussion of the removal of Āra Victōria from the Senate, he references Symmachus’ ‘ūnō itinere nōn potest pervenīrī ad tam grande sēcrētum’. ...
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Writing “I'm proud of myself”
I came up with "mihi superbus sum" with "mihi" as the Dative form of ego for "of myself", "superbus" for "proud", and "sum" for "I'm&...
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How can I define a new word in Latin?
As Latin is an ancient language, many words denoting new meanings are not available. So, I think it's necessary to define some new words in Latin. For example, principissa (a New Latin word, just ...
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How do you say “anyway” in Latin?
Using ‘anyway’ to indicate that the previous matter was an aside, or it doesn’t affect the conclusion, for instance, to say: “It was wet and nobody was at the park. Anyway, I went home.”
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Where can I find large public domain texts in latin?
I need to have a large selection of free, publicly available texts in Latin on the internet, hoping to train an neural network (computer algorithm) on it. It would eventually be able to generate ...
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Is the word order of “Iura novit curia” used for emphasis?
Is the change in the word order used for emphasis, and how would we translate "iura novit curia" to English while maintaining the word order? We don't have cases and there is the danger of ...
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Dramatis Personae but for important words
What is a phrase that acts like Dramatis Personae (for listing the important characters of a play) but for the important words?
I've thought of Dramatis Vocabulum, but I'm sure there's a better answer ...
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Translate “Now and Forever” into Latin
On Gary Numan's new album Intruder, he has a song called Now and Forever, which also uses that line repeatedly throughout the song. How would you express this in Latin? The lyrics are from a first-...
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List of locations in a play (analogue of ‘Dramatis Personae’)
The phrase ‘Dramatis Personae’ is conventionally used to describe a list of characters in a play.
What would be an analogous phrase to describe a list of places/locations/settings (eg ‘Elsinore, ...
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How this phrase could be written in classical latin?
How would the phrase "Vi veri vniversum vivvs vici" be written in Classical Latin? As far as I know, it is by Christopher Marlowe, originally written as Vi veri vniversum vivus vici, used in ...
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How do you say “I am vaccinated” in Latin?
How do you say that you have been vaccinated in Latin? I'm not sure how to construct this tense, and I'm not familiar with a modern Latin verb for "vaccinate".
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Did the Romans have a word for “genius”?
I am looking for a Latin word corresponding to the common modern English sense of the word "genius", a person with extraordinary ability in a specific field.
I do not want to refer to the ...
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Adverbial intensifier
Populi!
I try to find a word in Latin which couriers this specific sense:
right, just, the very;
and still found nothing.
I mean that I can find it in many another languages:
right here, just behind, ...
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How to say “bad batch” in Latin?
Suppose one of the four batches of amphorae produced yesterday at my pottery is discovered to be deficient and has to be thrown away instead of being sold.
What should I call such a "bad batch&...
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Differences between cano and canto
In Cap. X of LLPSI, Ørberg introduces the verb cano, having introduced canto in a previous chapter. The usage of both so far is just sing, but are there more nuanced differences between the two?
From ...
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How do you say “anything is possible” in Latin?
If you wanted to say that anything is possible in Latin, how would you do it?
One possibility I thought of was something like:
Omne posse
I'm not sure that omne quite captures the nuance of anything ...
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What would an election campaign be called in Latin?
Our site has its first election now and the voting period starts in 12 hours.
Therefore it is a good moment to figure out some of the election vocabulary in Latin.
What would be a good Latin word for ...
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What does “Prout necessitas ferat atque experientia suffragetur” translate to in English?
What would this latin sentence mean : "Prout necessitas ferat atque experientia suffragetur" ?
No idea...
Note: found in this link
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In Matthew 27, why does the Vulgate call the graves of people who were resurrected along with Jesus “monumentum”, but Jesus's grave “sepulchrum”?
In Matthew 27, why does the Vulgate call the graves of people who were resurrected along with Jesus "monumentum", but Jesus's grave "sepulchrum"?
Matthew 27:53 says, in Vulgate:
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Latin justification for the English word tradent
I was reading the following thread https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/tradent.3819293/ - There it is stated that the English word tradent, according to the OED means
Chiefly in Rabbinic Jewish ...
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Translate “I will cast my shadow” into Latin
I want to translate I will cast my shadow into Latin. This phrase is inspired from a poem by Horace, that has the line:
Pulvis et Umbra Sumus
My interpretation of this is that we are simply our ...
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Homeric hapax legomenon ἐγγεινομαι — is it not real?
There is a 2018 thesis by Alexandra Kozak, "Le Dictionnaire des hapax dans la poésie grecque archaïque, d'Homère à Eschyle," freely downloadable from https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-...
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Could one consider using Latin as a daily casual language these days?
I just saw a video asking like how would one say I just had an avocado toast and thought about some of the new stuff that didn't exist back then. How would we integrate new words into the Latin ...
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What is the ancient Greek word for apprenticeship?
I'm looking for an ancient Greek word that denotes a trainee craftsman's regime of study under a master, I found the word μαθητεία but I'm unsure if that is a word in ancient Greek or only in modern ...
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ATM in Vatican City: “Inserito scidulam quaeso ut faciundam cognoscas rationem”
The automated teller machines in Vatican City show this screen when awaiting a card:
Could someone, quaeso, break this down word by word? There are a number of things here that I find puzzling or ...
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Determining the etymology of words in Latin
I am interested in the etymology of words in Latin. Is there a resource available that could help me determine if a word is specifically from Old, New or Vulgar Latin etc. according to a time it is ...
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Why -ώς in αἰδώς?
The word αἰδώς means awe, shame, or respect. There are related words such as αἰδοῖος. I feel like I ought to be training my brain to recognize inflections in order to get clues as to meaning, but as ...
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What is the present participle of fio?
Horace wrote the line brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio in De Arte Poetica Liber. I want to use the latter half of the phrase, obscurus fio, as a song title but I'd like it to be in the form of I am ...
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What is “cum supportatione”?
In Epistolae obscurorum virorum, letter 3:
'Mus miser est antro qui solum clauditur uno.’ Sic etiam possum dicere de me cum supportatione, venerabilis vir, quia essem pauper si haberem tantum unum ...
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Translate “Those in Whom Deserts Hide” into Classical Latin
I am translating the phrase Those in Whom Deserts Hide, which was inspired by a line in the poem Dionysian Dithyrambs by Nietzsche ("The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide").
This ...
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How do you say something is “in flux” in Classical Latin?
In English we have in flux, which you can use to say that something is in a state of change. How do you use an adjective that way in Latin? Could you use fluxus in ablative/accusative case with the ...
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Is this word “manuducant” a typo or an obscure word?
I have the following sentence from Euler's De Serie Lambertina (I've already asked half a dozen questions about this paper), and one of the words manuducant (manvdvcant), shown in the snippet below, ...
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Act 1, Act 2, … in a play, in Greek
In an ancient Greek play, what word would we use to refer to the different acts? Μέρος? Λόγος?
Woodhouse doesn't seem to have anything relevant under the noun "act."
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The best way to say Sinners
I'd like to create an aesthetic with the phrase "Remember that you must die, sinners" - targeted at the viewers. I know the first part is memento mori, but what is the best translation of &...
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Tables of Greek expressions for time, place, and logic
I'm trying to build my vocabulary in koine using flashcards, and so far have had pretty good success attaining a decent level of reading fluency, e.g., I can get through the first couple of chapters ...
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What does causa procurans mean?
What is the definition of the expression causa procurans, and who may have been the originator of the term?
I found this expression used by a number of people, but I haven't been able to find it ...
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Create new word: super + portare
I want to create a new word by analogy to "support" with the prefix super-. According to Google the modern English word "support" comes from Latin supportare and is composed of sub-...
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What is the word for knowledge in Greek?
I read that there are two version depending on intrinsic value. So that it is either intellectual knowledge or divine knowledge, knowledge from within. And is there a difference between Ancient Greek ...
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Is “evidenter” the correct translation for “obviously!”?
I've searched the forum but found no answer to my question.
How would one say obviously in Latin?
As in answering a question with a "it's option b, obviously!"
Online dictionaries have given ...
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Names for digits or numbers
How would you say "I write zeroes and ones" or "I need a fiver" or "the number seven" in Latin?
There are a couple of cases where in some languages one uses instead of a ...
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Seize your future
What would "Seize your future/the future" be in Latin? I've got Carpe futurum, but my latin is quite poor.
I want to use it as a motto for an educational company. I want to use it as it ...
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Translation Request, English to Latin
How can I translate this sentence to Latin, "Man in the palace! Remember death, live with fear of death. Leave us alone."
I translate like that but... I don't know, I guess, I did a mistake. ...
