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DominiCanis
 Post subject: Latin translation, please
PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:34 am 
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What would be the Latin translation for these two:

"Truth above all else"

and

"Hail Mary, make me love unto death"?
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 Post subject: Re: Latin translation, please
PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:45 am 
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DominiCanis wrote:
What would be the Latin translation for these two:

"Truth above all else"

and

"Hail Mary, make me love unto death"?


Veritas supra omnes [cetera]

Ave/Salve Maria, fac me amare usque ad mortem or Ave/Salve Maria, me amantem usque ad mortem fac.

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DominiCanis
 Post subject: Re: Latin translation, please
PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 11:47 am 
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Cowboy Max
 Post subject: Re: Latin translation, please
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PED, why "omnes" and not "omnia"?

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They have a motto: Veritas super omnia.

St. Augustine mentions this phrase in his book "The Confessions of Saint Augustine," book 10.

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Cowboy Max
 Post subject: Re: Latin translation, please
PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:02 am 
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Omnes (masculine & feminine plural) usually refers to all people, while omnia (neuter plural) to all things.

Veritas super omnia is what I would opt for, too.

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Cowboy Max wrote:
PED, why "omnes" and not "omnia"?

Omnia would be better, as plural neuter....mine would translate like "Truth above all men"..seeing as I used cetera it was just a brain fart...

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