Expert: Maria - 9/3/2008

Question
Would you mind......

There is no greater treasure than capturing the heart of a woman...

Answer
Hello,

Here’s the Latin translation of your sentence:

-“Nihil pretiosius  est quam mulieris cor devincire”.
or
“Nihil pretiosius  est quam mulieris animum devincire”.

See below for grammatical analysis.

All the best,
Maria
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-There is no greater treasure = NIHIL PRETIOSIUS EST (literally, ‘there is nothing more precious’ where ‘nothing’ is NIHIL;’more precious’ is PRETIOSIUS; ‘there is’ corrisponds to EST )

- than = QUAM

-capturing = DEVINCIRE (infinitive of  DEVINCIO)

-the heart = COR (accusative of COR, 3rd.declension) or ANIMUM (accusative of ANIMUS, 2nd.declension)

-of a woman = MULIERIS (genitive of MULIER, 3rd.declension).

As you can see, Latin word order can be different from English.