Expert: Maria - 12/4/2010

Question
Hi maria !! welcome back from your vacations ! =)

Can you please help me pick a title for a book im writing,
its a autobiography about how i conquered cancer.

id like the title of my book to be "new beginning", "taking
control", or "reborn"

or if you have any suggestions about phrases i can use that
mean a new start, id apreciate it.

thanks in advance.

Ps, just out of curiosity how do u say "dreamcatcher" and
"saint" in latin?

thnx ! =)

Answer
Hello,

“New beginning” and “Reborn”, used as a title of your autobiography, translate respectively as follows:

-“Novum Initium” where “novum” means  ‘new’ and “initium” means “beginning”.

-“Ad vitam revocata”,  if “reborn” refers to a female person;
-“Ad vitam revocatus”, if  “reborn” refers to a male person.

As for "Taking control", there is no correct translation into Latin, since it would need to use a periphrasis, that is “a roundabout way of referring to something by means of several words instead of naming it directly in a single word or phrase”.

All the best,
Maria
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Note that:

-New = NOVUM (nominative neuter of the adjective NOVUS agreed with INITIUM)
-beginning= INITIUM (neuter noun, 2nd.declension)
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-Reborn =AD VITAM REVOCATA (literally, “Brought back to life” ) where AD means “to”; VITAM means “life” and REVOCATA ( nominative feminine, past participle of the verb REVOCO, I bring back) or REVOCATUS (nominative masculine, past participle of the verb REVOCO)  mean “brought back”.

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

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P.S. “Saint” is SANCTUS in the nominative masculine and SANCTA in the nominative feminine, while “dream catcher” does not exist in Latin.