Recent questions tagged latin

Description : Is the latin translation of this text correct grammatically and and is its meaning also correct?

Last Answer : I studied Linguam Latinam in grade school, but didn't retain very much. At my best, this would have taken me hours to try to translate. It's a little harder than necessary to check because ... in fact, it looks like your student translation matches word for word an English ceremonial magic text.

Description : When and how did Latin become Italian?

Last Answer : Without cheating by using Google, I would guess that Italian was created the same as all the other Romance languages. Various tribes invading the former Roman empire combined their languages with Latin. Italy was closer to the source, so Italian most resembles the original.

Description : Does anyone know where I can find the latin text of Vergil's Aeneid with macrons (long marks)

Last Answer : I don’t know if those lines correspond to the ones in this document, but try this. It’s from The Gutenberg Project, which has a long history of putting books online for free.

Description : How do you pronounce Veni, vidi, vici ?

Last Answer : I imagine it would be Venny, veedy, veachy.

Description : Know Latin French? What does 'femme libre' mean?

Last Answer : Free woman? And I think that’s French.

Description : What are they singing in Danny Elfman Descent into Mystery from the Batman movie?

Last Answer : THis is from the 1989 batman… and one of my favorite movies. I have no idea what they are singing, but I listen to the song in the car, and I am always at risk for a ticket because I pretend to be the batmobile.

Description : Latin experts: can you help me out? :)

Last Answer : Fortēo Fortuna Adiuvat…? As I understand it “adiuvat” directly translated derives from “to help” and Fortuna is a static word. Or am I wrong?

Description : Whats the difference in form of Gerund/Gerundive in Latin?

Last Answer : answer:The gerundive is in the same form as the future passive participle. It's a verbal adjective declined the same way other -us, -a, -um adjectives are declined. To form it, you take the infinitive of ... ) and drop the -re and add -nd and then the adjective ending. Amandus, amanda, amandum, etc.

Description : What does this mean? postquam Caecilius rem explicavit, omnes amici tacebant. mox 'vale' dixerunt et e villa discesserunt.

Last Answer : I used a translator and got this: when Caecilius rem explanation omnes friendship tacebant. soon bid farewell he had spoken and out of country house discesserunt

Description : What case is a direct object in an accusative infinitive construction in latin?

Last Answer : Welcome to fluther, @yellowpoppy. Are you speaking of a construction such as this (in English)? I know him to be an honest man. If so, how does a direct object come into it? I am ... thinking of an example where another object would occur in the same sentence. What is your sentence in English?

Description : What is your Latin name?

Last Answer : Flavius Blondeicus

Description : What is sibi in latin?

Last Answer : Google will get you the answer, I found it just fine.

Description : What do ipse venit and nil mihi rescribus mean?

Last Answer : I think that is Slovenian, not Latin.

Description : LATIN FACTS

Last Answer : Latin became the lingua franca across Europe, during the high point of Rome. Latin was originally spoken by people living along the lower Tiber River, and is the eldest root of the modern romance ... is still used in a written root form for the worlds of academics, medicine, law and science.