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Postby United Earthlings » Mon Aug 26, 2019 9:50 pm

Great Nortend wrote:Sea of the South? Your cases are a bit off: 'Mare' is nominative/accusative/vocative whereas 'Meridionali' is dative or ablative. If you wanted the 'Sea of the South', it would be 'Mare Meridionalis'.


I was afraid of that, hence the request before I decided to make official use of it.

Technically, I was going for something that would when roughly translated say: The Southern Sea or The South Sea. Just out of curiosity, how far was I off the mark on that one?

However, I actually like the sounding better of Sea of the South as that sounds more like something an ancient culture would use.

So, thanks for the assistance and for the name idea.
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Postby Great Nortend » Tue Aug 27, 2019 3:26 am

Sorry; 'Meridionalis' is an adjective. So 'Sea of the South' would actually be 'Mare Meridiei'. 'Mare Meridionalis' would be 'Sea of the Southern [Man/Person]'. 'Southern Sea' would be 'Mare Meridionale'. 'Sea of the Southern People' would be 'Mare Maridionalium'.
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Postby Grand Autocracy of Atlantis » Sun Sep 08, 2019 11:21 am

Hello, I'm here to find a translation for the family motto of the royal family of another nation of mine. So can you translate United through victory, honor, and blood; We the eternal rulers. Thanks to whoever translates this.

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Postby Great Nortend » Mon Sep 09, 2019 1:23 am

That is an awfully long motto.

Unitates per victoriam, honorem et sanguinem, aeterni rectores.
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Postby Azorztka » Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:52 am

Can someone help with my current motto? I feel like it's not accurate. I want to it to say "Blood, Fire, and Steel" but I don't think Latin uses commas. Thank you!
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Postby Great Nortend » Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:33 am

Modern typesetting of Latin uses commas. Punctuation would have been used in mediæval Latin, although not probably the same as English punctuation.
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Postby Tracian Empire » Wed Sep 18, 2019 6:58 am

How would Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam sound in its plural form? "For the greater glory of the Gods"
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Postby Great Nortend » Sat Sep 21, 2019 3:12 am

Ad Majorem Deorum Gloriam means “To the greater glory of the gods”, presuming that 'greater glory' is intended as a singular noun phrase.
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Postby Bears Armed » Fri Oct 04, 2019 6:54 am

“Hrarroom! (“Greetings!”)

Here is another request for help with Latin in a taxonomic context. People here have been helpful about this before, so I’m asking again even though neither of my two most recent requests has received any attention yet.
The wildlife in another player’s nation in my home region includes a species of a large porcupine, for which — as the Latin for ‘porcupine’ is Hystrix, and this is used as a genus name in RL — I have coined the genus name Macrohystrix.
For the second part of the name I need a Latin term that translates into English closely enough to “intimidating”, and that matches the first part of the name in gender. [Feminine? That seems to be the case for ‘Hystrix’...]
Is anybody here willing to help me with this?
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Postby Great Nortend » Fri Oct 04, 2019 8:27 am

Terrens would work. It means 'alarming' or 'scaring'. As a participle, it doesn't decline in the nominative, so it should work for any gender.
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Postby Bears Armed » Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:55 am

Great Nortend wrote:Terrens would work. It means 'alarming' or 'scaring'. As a participle, it doesn't decline in the nominative, so it should work for any gender.

Thank you.
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Postby Lemlar » Fri Oct 25, 2019 11:01 pm

Could someone help me turn "Victory with God" into latin?
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Postby Great Nortend » Sat Oct 26, 2019 2:30 am

Victoria cum Deo
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Postby West DEN And East Invaders » Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:37 am

Can someone translate "Defending Ends Now" and "Gest is Best"?
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Postby Bears Armed » Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:14 am

“Hrarroom!” (“Greetings!”) _

Here is another request for assistance with [taxonomical] Latin, if any of you are feeling helpful enough:
I know that the Latin for “chicken” is Gallus; and looking at a Latin/English dictionary tells me that one word for “thief” is Praedo (which I presume is the root of our modern English word ‘predator’…). I want the name of a genus to translate as “chicken-thief”, so should the correct Latin be Gallipraedo or Gallopraedo or something else?
Also, the second half of a species’ two-part scientific name has to agree with the genus name (which is the first half of the species’ two-part label) in gender, at least if it belongs to a type of ‘parts of speech’ that has gender. If I want the second part of the name for a species in this genus to mean “nocturnal”, should the correct form be nocturnus or nocturnalis or something else?
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(includes The Ursine NorthLands) Demonym = Bear[s]; adjective = ‘Urrsish’.
Population = just under 20 million. Economy = only Thriving. Average Life expectancy = c.60 years. If the nation is classified as 'Anarchy' there still is a [strictly limited] national government... and those aren't "biker gangs", they're traditional cross-Clan 'Warrior Societies', generally respected rather than feared.
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Postby A l b i o n » Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:23 am

Hello,

I’d like to ask what the Latin translation of "three kingdoms" might perhaps be? These kingdoms refer to England (Britannia), Scotland (Caledonia) and Ireland (Hibernia). Regnum Unitum might make more sense to use for political reasons and such but I’d like to be special.
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Postby Kyria » Fri Nov 29, 2019 8:46 am

Could one perhaps translate "Always Victorious"? I tried Google Translate but it wasn’t translating back into English at all.
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Postby Kyria » Mon Dec 02, 2019 5:17 am

Kyria wrote:Could one perhaps translate "Always Victorious"? I tried Google Translate but it wasn’t translating back into English at all.


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Postby Kaystein » Mon Dec 02, 2019 6:31 am

How do you say "In Fire, Friendship" in latin? I believe I botched my motto.

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Postby Great Nortend » Mon Dec 02, 2019 6:40 pm

Kyria : Semper victor.

Albion : Regna tria

Kaystein : In igne, amicitia. "Ex igne, amicitia" also could work.
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Postby Kyria » Tue Dec 03, 2019 12:53 am

Thanks!
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Postby Austral States of America » Tue Dec 03, 2019 4:17 am

Hello mates!

I wish to revise with you, experts, if my latin motto is correct: "Fortis, libero et justo", should translate as Brave, free and just.

Thanks in advance.

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Postby Great Nortend » Tue Dec 03, 2019 4:56 am

Kyria : 'Victor' is only for the singular. If you mean '[We] are always victorious', it would be 'Semper victoria' or 'Semper victores', depending if 'We' is feminine, masculine or neuter.
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Postby Kyria » Tue Dec 03, 2019 5:06 am

Great Nortend wrote:Kyria : 'Victor' is only for the singular. If you mean '[We] are always victorious', it would be 'Semper victoria' or 'Semper victores', depending if 'We' is feminine, masculine or neuter.


Ah, thanks for the clarification. It would be neuter, I believe, since it means all Kyrians regardless of distinction.
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Postby Great Nortend » Wed Dec 04, 2019 2:45 am

So it should be 'Semper victoria'.
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