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How to express the following sentence in Latin? I am after a good choice of structure, not a literal translation. "I regret to inform you that our old teacher has died." My suggestion is Doleo te ce …

, but I'd like to know an idiom already exists. …

"I mistook the cat for a dog" > Felem canem esse falso putabam), but I imagine there would be a Latin idiom for this purpose. … I couldn't find a Latin translation of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and I'm out of ideas how to look for an idiom like this. …

Is there a Latin phrase similar to the English "well done!" to be used to congratulate someone for achieving something? Translating from English, one might expect bene factum! or bene fecisti! or some …

A Finnish idiom ("mitäs puuhailet?") could be translated directly as quidnam factitas?, but I suspect there are better options. How would you ask such a question in Latin? Why so? …

I have failed to find a way to say "based on" in Latin. For a concrete example, I want to be able to write: The movie is based on the book. How would you go about phrasing this in Latin? Going b …

I occasionally want to say something like: Did you see the sign? It says: beware of the dog. How can I phrase "it says" in Latin? In English one can say "it says" or "it reads", and the direct …

In English you can say: "This job/movie/party/[anything] sucks!" This is a concise and slightly profane way of expressing displeasure. Is there something similar in Latin? The corresponding Finnish e …

Is there a Latin idiom for deciding to sit back and wait instead of acting immediately? …

Is there a similar idiom in Latin? Any era will do, although classical is preferred if there is a choice. …

To state one's preference to end a war, in English one can cry "No to war!" and in Russian "Нет войне!" and similarly in many other languages. But how about Latin? I can put non together with a dative …

In English you kill two birds with one stone when you achieve two goals in one action. In Finnish or Dutch you get two flies in one hit. Is there a similar saying in Latin? I prefer classical Latin, b …

How can I say in Latin that it is raining on something? I can find ways around like pluvia rem tingit, but I would like something more literally "it rains on something" than "the rain makes something …

Recently when reading some material related to research grants, I came across the Latin phrase pro rata temporis in English text. It was easy enough to understand in the context. For example, a 600 00 …

I recently obtained formal qualifications to teach Latin (and mathematics and physics) in a number of Finnish schools and I got my diploma yesterday. How should I go about expressing this in Latin? Is …