Expert: Maria - 12/20/2008

Question
Hello!

I was just hoping that you could translate the following for me:
"Make His name known," or "Make known His name."

Either one is fine.
Thank you so much!

Answer
Hello,

Both the phrases “Make His name known" and  "Make known His name"  translate as follows:

-“Eius celebra nomen” or with a different word order “Nomen celebra Eius”, if the imperative “Make” is a 2nd.person singular.

-“Eius celebrate nomen” or with a different word order “Nomen celebrate Eius”, if the imperative “Make” is a 2nd.person plural.

All the best,
Maria
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-Make known  = CELEBRA (2nd.person singular, imperative of CELEBRO)  / CELEBRATE  (2nd.person plural).

-His = EIUS (genitive of the pronoun IS)

-name = NOMEN (Accusative case, neuter noun belonging to the  3rd declension).

Note that Latin uses the ending of the 2nd.person singular when you are addressing to only one person, while uses the 2nd.person plural when you are addressing to two or more people.

As you can see, Latin word order can be variable simply because syntactical relationships are indicated by the endings, not by the order of the words.