Freeman Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 How would I translate proper names in Latin? E.g. Alex -> Alexius, Pablo -> Pablius, Nelson -> Nelsonus, etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Have a look here. There's no set way of doing it really, you just need to look up a name and see which one fits best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeman Posted July 25, 2004 Author Share Posted July 25, 2004 One last thing, I have a classical Latin-English dictionary, where would I get one which has modern Latin words? Is there one online? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Remember, Latin is (to all extents and purposes) a dead language. You're not likely to find many (if any) modern words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeman Posted July 25, 2004 Author Share Posted July 25, 2004 Oh, yeah, defintaley (spel?); however, remember that philosophers have been keeping it alive until only a few centuries a go. I wanted to know if anyone has a list of words the philosophers added on to the classical latin. Thanks for the help so far Dave! Its helped a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Cool, my name in latin would be Laurentius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 I wanted to know if anyone has a list of words the philosophers added on to the classical latin. I would assume the answer is "probably not"; your best bet is probably to do a google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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