Latin motto clinic

[Hetairos]

I have a feeling my current 'latin' motto is off, slightly, but I'm way to used to it to change it now. If you could tell me quite how wrong it actually might be, I'd be obliged.

"Fides, Gloria, Sanguis", hopefully translates as "Honour, Glory, Blood". I've seen 'Fides' as anything from Fi to Fideles, too, so I iagine there are some differences?

That seems right. 'Fides' can mean honour, although it's not the most common meaning (normally translated as something like belief etc).

[West Zirconia]

I had in mind "Everything in Moderation" and came up with "Omnis in Temperantia"

Now you're going to tell me this is horribly wrong, and hopefully how to make it horribly right?

(perhaps I should have stuck with Welsh...)

[Rustafari]

Free market capitalism, path to prosperity

[Marlencom]

Paving the Way to Communism

[Communist Mindrili]

From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs

[Naivetry]

*steps out of the WA and ducks out of what looks like an angry mob yelling 'For Belgium!' in order to tend her thread*

To be remembered, is to be great.

Meminari est magnus fieri.
(Cheating a bit here - "To be remembered is to become great." If you really want to say "to be great," change fieri to esse - I just didn't want to repeat the verb.)

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It was meant as "Strive to have no master..."

Capta serviri nemini praeterquam tibi.
(Literally, "Strive to be a slave to/serve no one other than yourself.")

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The motto of my country is supposed to be "From the Prince, Light" (or Princess in the case of a female monarch). However, the internet translators I used- this was a while ago, though, and I don't recall looking for a "second opinion"- seemed to use the same word for prince and king. I guess it makes sense, because Prince usually means "son of the King" but in this context the Prince is the ruler.

Anyway, the motto I currently use is "Ex Rege, Lux". I'm fairly positive that this is wrong on several levels. If you could provide me with proper translations for "From the Prince, Light" and "From the Princess, Light", that would be just great.

To echo Hetairos and North Avayu a bit... Since the Romans didn't have a king following the expulsion of the Tarquins, their vocabulary for monarchic rule is underdeveloped compared to, say, medieval Europe. In the Empire, when you have a monarchy in all but name, they do use the word princeps, which originally was part of the title for the most distinguished senator, who had the privilege of speaking first. It originally meant simply "first," "chief," or "principal." Augustus takes great care with his propaganda to avoid being called a king, and so his designated successors are understood by a constellation of legal privileges, rather than a single title. When they talked about princes and princesses, it was only as the son or daughter of a king, and so that's exactly what they said - filius (son) or filia (daughter) regis. Princeps, then, is probably what you're looking for. Luckily, people invented a feminine form for it, later - principissa. Anyway, long story short:
Ex principe, lux or Ex principissa, lux.

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Given the nature of the nation in question, a word that looks close to potato will instantly suggest vodka, so I think the plural is decidedly appropriate. Thank you.

You're welcome! And you're right, I'll have to watch what I give them for homework... no more sentences about nailing heads to the rostrum...

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Vos es Bardus

Vos estis bardi.
(The rest are, as North Avayu said, correct.)

And how would you say "Im going to put a wooden stake in your chest"? Or "I shall stab you with my trusty lance"?

Pectum tuum palo confodiam.
(Literally, "I shall stab your chest with a wooden stick.")

Te mea lancea firma confodiam.
(A lancea is a light spear with a leather thong fastened around the middle. Hasta could be used for spears more generally.)

What about "I shall slay you with a large sword!" or "I shall shine my flash light in your face!"

Te magno ferro necabo!
(Using ferrum as a generalizing word for sword.)

Meo instrumento micanti in vultu tuo utor.
(Flash light? Really? Best I can do.)

Note: for all of these, I've been assuming you're talking to a single person.

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I've always wondered if my motto was correct Latin. "Sceptrum publicus per populus." It's supposed to translate to "Rule of the people by the people."

With North Avayu on this one.

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"Corrupt, Madness, and Spartan! (:D)

This isn't the best English, since corrupt and Spartan are adjectives and madness is a noun (which you seem to want to use as a predicate, as in "It's madness!"). Adjectives need to be describing something, and the question of what they're describing matters in Latin because the number and gender have to change to match it. I'm going to assume the adjectives are describing your nation (a feminine word) and change "madness" to the adjective "insane."

Corrupta, Insana, Lacedaemonia
(The Romans have a large vocabulary for moral indecency, so I picked one with more political overtones - bribery, etc.)

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I put this through an online translator and after rerunning it through in Latin it came out horribly butchered.

It is better to light a candle, rather than curse the darkness.

Melius candelam accendere quam tenebras exsecrari.

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"Don't ask me, I only govern here".

Ne me roges, hic moderor modo.
(There are plenty of other words for "govern," but I thought moderor sounded appropriate... if that's too tongue-in-cheek, I can find you a better one. )

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“Victor tolero patientia”

It's meant to be "The victor endures suffering," but going by the odds of the mottos posted in this thread, I'm sure there's something wrong with it.

Victor dolorem patitur.
(Yup.)

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I have a feeling my current 'latin' motto is off, slightly, but I'm way to used to it to change it now. If you could tell me quite how wrong it actually might be, I'd be obliged.

"Fides, Gloria, Sanguis", hopefully translates as "Honour, Glory, Blood". I've seen 'Fides' as anything from Fi to Fideles, too, so I iagine there are some differences?

Fides often means faith in the sense of trust - as in "break faith" with someone. It means honor, then, in the sense of keeping your promises. If you want something that means... oh... a sense of aristocratic reputation and worth, as in "the honor of my house is at stake!" then you may want to go with something like dignitas instead.

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I had in mind "Everything in Moderation" and came up with "Omnis in Temperantia"

Now you're going to tell me this is horribly wrong, and hopefully how to make it horribly right?

(perhaps I should have stuck with Welsh...)

No, no - very close! I think there's an actual Latin quote for this one, so let me look that up and get back to you...

EDIT: Fixed quote tag.

[Starblaydia]

I have a feeling my current 'latin' motto is off, slightly, but I'm way to used to it to change it now. If you could tell me quite how wrong it actually might be, I'd be obliged.

"Fides, Gloria, Sanguis", hopefully translates as "Honour, Glory, Blood". I've seen 'Fides' as anything from Fi to Fideles, too, so I imagine there are some differences?

Fides often means faith in the sense of trust - as in "break faith" with someone. It means honor, then, in the sense of keeping your promises. If you want something that means... oh... a sense of aristocratic reputation and worth, as in "the honor of my house is at stake!" then you may want to go with something like dignitas instead.

In that case, I've fluked the most appropriate latin word possible - many thanks for (both of) your help!

[Naivetry]

I had in mind "Everything in Moderation" and came up with "Omnis in Temperantia"

Now you're going to tell me this is horribly wrong, and hopefully how to make it horribly right?

(perhaps I should have stuck with Welsh...)

The sentiment is everywhere, so let me borrow some Cicero.

Suus cuique modus est.
("Each thing has its own proper measure." That's a more refined version of the idea, based on Aristotle, and it's some beautifully compact Latin.)

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These are utterly foreign concepts to Roman society. I can string words together, but "free" and "market" meant nothing to the Romans when used in combination, and "capitalism" as such did not exist.

Free market capitalism, path to prosperity

Capitalismus sine modo, via ad prosperitatem.

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Paving the Way to Communism

Munire viam ad Communismum

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From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs

De quoque pro facultate, cuique pro necessitudine.
(An ugly translation for such a famous phrase, but it's the best I've got.)

[Sirocco]

This is an excellent thread. Thanks for the translation!

[Sibirsky]

Thank you. Very nice!

[Havensky]

Could you translate "Empathy Over Apathy"?

[Naivetry]

Could you translate "Empathy Over Apathy"?

Empathia Super Lentitudo
(Not quite sure on the use of super here, but I think it works... empathia is just taken from the Greek, since the next closest thing would be either humanitas, which is much broader than empathy, or something like societas doloris, which is long.)

[Heaven Hieghts]

Ha ha ha! Now I can say these mean things to people that make me angry!

[West-Flanders]

What's the translation for “Unity in diversity”

[North Avayu]

What's the translation for “Unity in diversity”

The easiest translation would be "Unitas in diversitate"

[Naivetry]

What's the translation for “Unity in diversity”

The easiest translation would be "Unitas in diversitate"

Yep.

(I've been thinking it's kind of silly for me to continue posting agreement with things that are right - assume that other people's answers are just fine unless I get in a fight with them over the appropriate use of the dative of reference or something. )

[Caelapes]

Just making sure that what I have in my signature is proper?

[Solar Communes]

"For freedom, I shall fight eons"

It is supposed to be ambiguous, and equally interpretable as "For freedom, I shall fight forever" and as "For freedom, I shall fight eternity". Not sure if such ambiguity is possible in Latin. If it's not, I'd rather the closest Latin phrase to the latter.

[Greenlandic People]

Hi.

Could I please have the closest possible translation of: "Even Death is Preferable to Shame"

Thanks!

[Jimanistan]

Salve!

I, admittedly, am not well versed in Latin... It's an interesting language, and fun to talk in, but I can barely speak a word...

Could you translate "Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!" into Latin? It doesn't have to be precise, it just has to get the point across... *hums the tune to the Internationale*

[Naivetry]

Just making sure that what I have in my signature is proper?

"VIVAT·CRESCAT·FLOREAT·REX·ROSEUS"

This would mean something like, "May the Rose King live, thrive, and flourish." The Latin is better than the English, actually - if you're playing on the meaning of "rose," you've picked some great words.

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"For freedom, I shall fight eons"

It is supposed to be ambiguous, and equally interpretable as "For freedom, I shall fight forever" and as "For freedom, I shall fight eternity". Not sure if such ambiguity is possible in Latin. If it's not, I'd rather the closest Latin phrase to the latter.

Pro libertate, aeternitatem certabo.
(Happily, Latin uses the accusative case for both duration of time and direct objects, so the ambiguity works.)

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Hi.

Could I please have the closest possible translation of: "Even Death is Preferable to Shame"

Thanks!

Hi.

Etiam mors potior dedecore.

You're welcome.

EDIT: Fixed potior!

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Salve!

I, admittedly, am not well versed in Latin... It's an interesting language, and fun to talk in, but I can barely speak a word...

Could you translate "Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!" into Latin? It doesn't have to be precise, it just has to get the point across... *hums the tune to the Internationale*

Salve!

O captivi famis, surgite!
(Eh, something like that.)

[North Wiedna]

Ex Deo Victoria-Out of God, Victory. Right?

[Jimanistan]

"O captives of famine, rise", right?

that's pretty close, gratias tibi ago!

[Democratic Eurasia]

This isn't for my motto, but could you tell me what the latin words for 'predator' and 'scorpion' are, please?

[Caelapes]

This isn't for my motto, but could you tell me what the latin words for 'predator' and 'scorpion' are, please?

Prædator and scorpio.