Expert: Maria - 3/29/2009

Question
Hi Maria,
Could I trouble you for a latin translation of
1. A noble woman
2. A woman of spirit and love

Many thanks,
Darren

Answer
Hello,

Here are the translations you need:

1-“Nobilis mulier” or “Mulier nobilis” m( A noble woman).

2-“Faceta mulier ac benevola”  (A woman of spirit and love).

Note that I’ve always used  the nominative case as both “a noble woman” and “a woman of spirit and love” are subject of a sentence. Latin  is in fact an inflected language where we have five declensions and six cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, ablative) so that  each word changes its ending, according to its role in a sentence (subject, direct object, indirect object).
For example, in "I love a noble woman", where "a noble woman" is a direct object, I should say "Nobilem mulierem amo" where "nobilem" and "mulierem" are in the accusative.

Best regards,
Maria
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-A noble = NOBILIS (adjective)
-woman = MULIER (3rd.declension)


-A woman = MULIER
-of spirit = FACETA (adjective in the nominative feminine agreed with MULIER)
-and = AC
-love = BENEVOLA (adjective in the nominative feminine agreed with MULIER).
Note that Latin uses two adjectives for “of spirit and love”.