Any Latin scholars amongst us?

DeVore · 16-05-2003 11:08AM #1

I know this is the English board and all but I figured there might be a Latin scholar or two hanging around here as well.

(Perhaps we should have a Classics board? *muse*).

Anyway, I'm looking to translate "There is only one Queen" into latin, not a hard task you might think but I want to get it right and my latin is quite rusty since I havent studied it since school.
Anyone out there proficient at Latin?

DeV.

DeVore · 16-05-2003 11:41AM

So far all I can add is:

Unus = "Only one"
Regina = "Queen"

I cant find a direct translation for "There is" and I suspect I recall that there isnt a direct translation for it and its somehow irregular...

"Sum" is the verb to be but doesnt work here afaicr...

Any classically inclined peeps out there?

DeV

Talliesin · 16-05-2003 02:08PM

Unus tantum Regina est is what I would guess based on half-remembering that Unus tantum Deus est means "there is only one god". But I'm not even slightly sure of that.

Earthhorse · 16-05-2003 08:05PM

Sorry to jump on the back of this buh...I was going to ask for a Latin translation of the following on the Italian board.

1) "Until the end of time."

2) "Things must be done one at a time."

The closest I can get is for the first one is Tempus Terminus, which probably means "time's end" or "time ends" (if it means anything at all!).

I wonder could it be considered a poetic way of expressing oneself!

ykt0di9url7bc3 · 16-05-2003 08:12PM

I was studing Latin in secondry school and i liked it, found it a little easy but the school decided to drop it as an option for the JC

CuLT · 16-05-2003 09:51PM

I don't know how useful this will be to you Dev, found it years ago, a latin grammar dictonary...

http://homepage.eircom.net/~cult/files/dict_lat.exe

about 300k...

Praetorian · 19-05-2003 09:14AM

Una regina sola est

Mercury_Tilt · 19-05-2003 11:58PM

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Praetorian · 20-05-2003 10:54AM

Una regina solum est

Any Latin scholars amongst us?

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