Expert: Maria - 7/24/2009

Question
Hello, Maria. I am currently writing a story, and I need help translating the simple title "Gods of Death/Destruction (either word works) to Latin. I've done a little research myself, but my results have been unsatisfactory so far. Thanks in advance.

Answer
Hello,

Here are the translations you need:

-“Mortis Dei” (Gods of Death)

-“Destructionis Dei” (Gods of Destruction)

Best regards,
Maria
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Note that:

-Gods= DEI (nominative plural of DEUS, 2nd.declension)

-of death = MORTIS (genitive of MORS, 3rd.declension)

-of destruction= DESTRUCTIONIS (genitive of DESTRUCTIO, 3rd.declension)

As you can see, Latin word order can be different from English.In Latin in fact syntactical relationships are indicated by the inflexional endings, not by the order of the words.