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I would like to offer a review of both replies posted so far, and offer a couple of my own suggestions which I think are an improvement on both. Laravel's Ave Domine Noctis is in general fine and cor …

Sī quidem vim ventī cum pluviā procellam vocāmus, licet istud procellam niveam seu nivālem dīcāmus. Atque hoc cōnferātur cum illō 'snowstorm' Anglicō quod idem fere quod 'blizzard' significat, aut cum …

I would say something like: ōtiōsum (either subject or object) or ōtiōsē nescioquid dēlīneāre > dēlīneāmenta ōtiōsa; also vānum, leve nescioquid; scrībere would probably refer to words; in chartīs …

Ok, this begs for a reprise on Ovid, so I've written one: Quot caelō stēllae || totidem annōs Auguriālis Augure lingua suō || vōce suā caruit Haec elementōrum || dīvīnā lēge beāvit Īnfantemque al …

It's difficult to find an equivalent for this proverb not just in Latin but in modern European languages as well, which I think is down to the proverb's peculiar genesis. In fact, I've found only two …

malevolentia, despite Cicero's definition attempt, only refers to 'ill-will, spite', that is to a long-term, harboured attitude towards another; it's near-synonymous and used in conjunction with words …

No, a sī-clause cannot be nominal, it needs a predicate; in absence of one it reads just like 'if a fire' in English, i.e. as a elliptic list item with the same verb as before understood. The only pos …

The name 'stackexchange' is a multilevel pun which rests on the existence of a large and complex set of programming terminology, followed by the creation of a website called 'stackoverflow' named afte …

Tū crēdō aliquid rhētoricum tragicumve quaeris, cui rei 'minimē gentium' mihi parum satis facere vidētur; id persuādentis vel ōrantis est potius, abhorrentis etiam. quasi vērō! – id optumē per īrōnia …

'to cost more, less' is plūris, minōris (cōn)stāre, or vēnīre 'to be sold for' (conjugated as īre) note that these two adjectives along with quantī, tantī are only used in the genitive; all other pr …

Salvē Iōhannē! Id quod quaeris nōn dissimile esse vidētur huic quaestiōnī: "Look at the bright side" in Latin. Namque ego ad eam respondēns plūrīs locūtiōnēs prōposuī quibus animī cūra et sollicitūdō …

Your choice of preposition is good ('instead of, on behalf of'), but rogāre fundamentally means 'to ask for something to be done', and hence 'to approach with a request; to solicit, proposition', esp …

You've identified a number of distinct uses of this word all of which appear to have to do with modality. I'll try to list them all and give translation equivalents. Overall, Latin expresses non-asser …

Oscar dixit matrimonium aliud esse rem in qua experientia spe obruatur. I would not understand this sentence, and the main culprit seems to be the syntax, which is in places English and in places in …

It seems you're looking for a conjunctive discourse marker that adds a revelant reservation B to statement A for the addressee to consider so as to make a more informed decision, but without presentin …