Translating latin to English vis et virtus?

Answer 1

"English to Latin" can be expressed in Latin as ex lingua Anglica in Latinam, literally "from the English tongue into the Latin". It is possible to omit the word lingua as understood, leaving ex Anglica in Latinam.

Answer 2

If you have a basic understanding of Latin already, I would simply use a dictionary, either in print or online to help with words. (I have linked you to the online one I use below)

If you do not know any language at all, I would ask someone who knows Latin fairly well to help you. Latin is too difficult a language to fully comprehend without having taken classes of some sort.

That being said, I'll be happy to translate Latin for you if you post on my message board or pm me or whatever it is on this site.

Answer 3

Virtus has more than one meaning in Latin: * Stength * Manliness, courage * goodness, merit If vis et virtus is used as a military motto the best translation is probably something like Stength and courage.

Answer 4

It's a multi-step process.

First you need to understand the meaning of what you're translating. For example, WikiAnswers often gets questions like "how do you translate 'will' into Latin?", but there's no single answer because the English word 'will' can mean different things. It can be a marker of the future tense, as in "Caesar will soon conquer the Gauls"; it can be a legal document, as in "last will and testament"; it can be a desire or purpose, as in "Thy will be done"; and so on.

Then you need to know enough of Latin grammar to know whether a direct translation is even possible. For example, unlike English, Latin does not express the future tense by using an auxiliary verb like "will", so looking for a direct translation of the future-tense marker "will" would be pointless. Instead, you have to find the main verb (in the example above, "conquer") and translate it with a future-tense form of the equivalent Latin verb.

Assuming, though, that a direct translation is possible, you look up the English word in an English-to-Latin dictionary and choose an equivalent Latin word. Even then, the dictionary may not give you everything you need, because Latin is an inflected language, which means that nouns, adjectives and verbs change their forms depending on context. If you're translating "Caesar will soon conquer the Gauls", the dictionary may tell you that the word for "Gauls" is Galli, but it won't tell you that you need the accusative (the form necessary when the word is the object of a verb), which is Gallos. Again, the translator needs to supply the grammatical understanding.

There is also the question of idioms. Even if a direct translation is possible, it may not be correct; think of translating the German idiom Es gibt . . . into English. The German words mean, literally, "It gives . . .", but that would be a terrible English translation. The equivalent English phrase is, instead, "There is/are . . .". The same kind of thing can happen when translating between any two languages. The only way to avoid it is to have a reasonable understanding of the target language's idioms, which can only be gained by experience, although there are reference books that can help.

By the way, it's the absence of any of these steps that makes the output of the typical online Latin translator so awful: these work simply by looking words up one by one, with no regard for meaning, context or grammar.

Answer 5

The Latin word Vis means power or force or strength.

Answer 6

Ab, de or ex depending on the meaning of from in the particular context.

Answer 7

"One heart."

Answer 8

per omnia saeculor saeculorum

Answer 9

Go with God