Re: Latin help
Well, there is not one single translation to this, but literally,
taking the inflections into account, it means "By God and By The
Sword", could also mean "To God and By the Sword", etc.
I think that the most likely interpretations would be either like
"With God (on our side), and By The Sword" or "To (the
greater glory of) God and By The Sword".
Bart
(studied oodles of Latin, Greek, Assyrian and Babylonian in a too
long-ago student life;-)
Yes, but there's
something else in there due to the cases. The nouns without
inflection are "Deus" and "Gladius." "Deo" and
"Gladio" are inflected nouns that imply what we call prepositions.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_%28A%E2%80%93E%29 and scroll
down to phrases beginning with "Deo" to see some examples.
Your phrase should translate as something like "To" or "With"
"God and the Sword."
(my own ignorance
only, as usual)
Arel Lucas,
C.A.
Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University
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Barbara,
I don't know much about Latin, but
it looks like gladio is latin for sword (a form of gladius)
and your motto was "God and sword" (I've absorbed a bit
from working in a church library). Hopefully someone else can
confirm this.
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OK, I have looked and looked
and can't seem to figure this out. I know it will be
appallingly easy for those folks out there who actually took Latin,
but please take pity on me and help anyway.
I am trying to translate the
motto on the insignia for Mount Sinai's affiliated hospital unit in
World War II, the Third General Hospital. The words are
"Deo et Gladio". I have my guess on what I think it means, but
since I am using this in a public display, I would actually like to be
correct.
Any help would be
appreciated!
Barbara
Barbara J.
Niss
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