The leader of a right-wing populist party here in Sweden came out with a new book today, called Satis polito. In an interview he admits he don’t know how to pronounce it, but says it should be translated as “wellpolished enough” – meaning that he indeed fits in the parliament and amongst the political elite (as opposed to his background, from a small town, being a leader of a marginalized party and so on).
Now I’m just a beginner of Latin, so I don’t know, but something tells me it’s not entirely gramatically correct, this title. Is it?
What’s strange about it is that polito is ablative or dative, where you’d expect the nominative case in the absence of any context. He probably found the phrase in a quotation where it modified a noun in the ablative or dative case.
polito is also a future active imperative of the verb polio et imperativo modo activâ voce futuro tempore
Post scriptum
A mistake it could be, or also a parenthetical ablative absolute: “He [/the man] having been sufficiently polished/educated, …[the following things happened]”