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>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
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