Latin love translations

Arcanium · Post by **Arcanium** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:31 pm

My girlfriend is taking 1st year latin at mcmaster university...and i'm making her a black rose with an inscription...i have four sayings i need translated. the first i have. amor vincit omnia...but i need a) my love for you is everlasting b) you are perfection and beauty incarnate c) may our love for each other last until death.
i know some words..but i don't kow anything about genetive forms or any other grammar rules. so if anybody could translate these i'd be grateful..

primitive · Post by **primitive** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:00 am

a.) meus amor est ______. im not sure the word for everlasting. but it would be in the nominitive singular masculine since amor is.

classicalclarinet · Post by **classicalclarinet** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:22 am

Amor tibi sempiternus est.

How is this?

Arcanium · Post by **Arcanium** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:26 am

to which does that apply....A?

primitive · Post by **primitive** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:28 am

yea. sempiternus im guessing is everlasting. i would put it...

meus amor est sempiternus tibi

Arcanium · Post by **Arcanium** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:33 am

ok, thank you....what about the other two?

benissimus · Post by **benissimus** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:28 am

Arcanium wrote:My girlfriend is taking 1st year latin at mcmaster university...and i'm making her a black rose with an inscription...i have four sayings i need translated. the first i have. amor vincit omnia...but i need a) my love for you is everlasting b) you are perfection and beauty incarnate c) may our love for each other last until death.
i know some words..but i don't kow anything about genetive forms or any other grammar rules. so if anybody could translate these i'd be grateful..

The phrase amor vincit omnia is certainly correct, but the original phrase goes omnia vincit amor (if you want to copy the original).

Here are some translations of the others:

a) my love for you is everlasting
(meus) amor tui (est) sempiternus
(the objective genitive is probably a better choice than a dative)

b) you are perfection and beauty incarnate
pulchritudinis es summa perfectionisque

c) may our love for each other last until death
usque ad mortem perferat noster amor

Arcanium · Post by **Arcanium** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:13 am

wow...my girlfriend even said her textbook said that those were perfect. thanks dude! is latin your major or something?

benissimus · Post by **benissimus** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:57 am

Arcanium wrote:wow...my girlfriend even said her textbook said that those were perfect. thanks dude! is latin your major or something?

Wow! Your girlfriend's textbook sounds really good!

No, Latin is not my major

, just the nicer of my two main interests. I wouldn't mind majoring in Latin, but it's not offered in many places here and also not easily applicable to most careers...

Nice thing to do for a girlfriend by the way. (jaffa cakes excluded, episcope)

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