Expert: Maria - 5/30/2010

Question
Is there a direct Latin translations for the title "Nightmares and Shadows"?

Answer
Hello,

“Nightmares and Shadows” translates as follows:

-“Incubi umbraeque”
Or:
-“Nocturnae suppressiones umbraeque”

See below for further information.

Best regards,
Maria
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Note that:

-Nightmares = INCUBI (nominative plural of the noun INCUBUS, 2nd.declension) or NOCTURNAE SUPPRESSIONES ( literally, “nocturnal oppressions”, composed by the feminine plural adjective NOCTURNAE and the nominative feminine plural of SUPPRESSIO, 3rd.declension).

-and = -QUE (enclitic, i.e. attached to UMBRAE.

-Shadows = UMBRAE (nominative plural of UMBRA, 1st.declension)