Expert: Maria - 4/1/2009

Question
hello i would like to get either "not all who wander are lost" or " she walks the path of night" in Latin for my class ring. i would really appreciate the help thank you so so much.

Answer
Hi,

here are the translations you asked me:

-“Non omnes vagantes deerrant”
[“Not all who wander are lost"]

-“Noctis percurrit viam”
[She walks the path of night]

See below for grammatical analysis.

Best regards,
Maria
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Note that:

-Not = NON

-all = OMNES (nominative plural of OMNIS)

-who wander = VAGANTES (nominative plural, present participle of the deponent verb VAGOR, I wander)

-are lost = DEERRANT (from DEERRO, I am lost / I lose the way).

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-She walks = PERCURRIT ( present indicative of PERCURRO, I walk. Note that the pronoun “she” is omitted in Latin)

-the path = VIAM (direct object in the accusative of VIA)

-of night = NOCTIS (genitive of NOX, 3rd.declension)

As you can see, Latin word order is different from English as Latin  is an inflected language where syntactical relationships are indicated by the endings of each term, not by the order of the words.