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How would you translate "The Adorned" for use as a collective title?
Cicero uses a participle of orno that could work as a substantive for you:
sepulcrum floribus ornatum, Cic. Fl. 38, 95.
To make it plural, you could use ornati (m), ornatae (f), ornata (n). ...
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How to express a prayer intention
Let's take a sentence from this beautifully typeset Roman Missal as an example (p. 46, end of §5):
In Missīs dē Passiōne Dominī, prō quācumque necessitāte, prō peccātīs, ad postulandam grātiam bene ...
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How does one translate "a fighting thing" and "a running away thing"?
The core question seems to be finding good verbs for fighting and running away; then it remains to form their participles just like in your example cogitare > cogitans.
I suggest taking a look at ...
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The opposing meanings of the word donec?
Indeed, there is a grammatical explanation. If you take a close look at the L&S entry, you might notice that virtually in all the 'as long as' examples the verb is imperfect, while it's perfect in ...
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The opposing meanings of the word donec?
Really, this is just a quirk of the language. All languages have quirks, including our own. Consider 'up to':
It's up to you...It came up to scratch...I got up to the top...I filled it up to the top.
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