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English to Latin translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Other | | English term or phrase: The forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest. | Does anybody know how to translate that into Latin?
I wanted it tattooed on my shoulder in Ancient Latin lettering and I wanted it to be perfect. |
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| | POMVM PROHIBITVM DVLCISSIME SAPIT | Explanation:
So the Romans would have written this sentence, save that they would not have put spaces between the words but would have run the ends and beginnings of the words together. Likewise, minuscule (lower case) letters were not developped until Carolingian times (8th-9th centuries C.E.), so they would have employed capitals solely.
'Pomum' refers to any fruit (not just the apple) which is grown in orchards. 'Fructus' would refer to any kind of fruit at all, even to grains and vegetables.
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Note added at 33 mins (2008-07-21 00:31:41 GMT)
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In classical Latin, V and U are interchangeable, representing the same vocalic and semi-vocalic sounds of oo in 'moon' and of w in 'we'. V had far the longer run, being used in the oldest extant inscriptions through the end of the Republic into the early Principate. U first appears in the later 1st century C.E. and, though it became commoner from then onwards, it never ousted V and is in fact found in texts and inscriptions even in the 21st century.
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Note added at 15 hrs (2008-07-21 15:07:33 GMT) Post-grading
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The only significant difference between 'prohibitum' and 'inconcessum' in the sense of 'forbidden' is that the latter is a poetic word, while the former is found in both prose and poetry. |
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25 mins confidence:  | the forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest. POMVM PROHIBITVM DVLCISSIME SAPIT
Explanation:
So the Romans would have written this sentence, save that they would not have put spaces between the words but would have run the ends and beginnings of the words together. Likewise, minuscule (lower case) letters were not developped until Carolingian times (8th-9th centuries C.E.), so they would have employed capitals solely.
'Pomum' refers to any fruit (not just the apple) which is grown in orchards. 'Fructus' would refer to any kind of fruit at all, even to grains and vegetables.
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Note added at 33 mins (2008-07-21 00:31:41 GMT)
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In classical Latin, V and U are interchangeable, representing the same vocalic and semi-vocalic sounds of oo in 'moon' and of w in 'we'. V had far the longer run, being used in the oldest extant inscriptions through the end of the Republic into the early Principate. U first appears in the later 1st century C.E. and, though it became commoner from then onwards, it never ousted V and is in fact found in texts and inscriptions even in the 21st century.
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Note added at 15 hrs (2008-07-21 15:07:33 GMT) Post-grading
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The only significant difference between 'prohibitum' and 'inconcessum' in the sense of 'forbidden' is that the latter is a poetic word, while the former is found in both prose and poetry.
| Joseph J. Brazauskas
United States
Local time: 15:36
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Native speaker of:  English, Spanish
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| | Grading comment | Thank you so much. Your explanation was perfect! =) |
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Asker: Thank you so much! I just have one more thing I wanted to ask you. Do you think prohibitvm or inconcessvm would work better to get the message across?
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