Expert: Maria - 11/29/2011

Question
could you please help me with these translations?

"Attain Greatness, Believe and Conquer"

"God wills this"

Answer
Hello,

Here are the translations you asked me:

-“Summa adipiscere, crede ac vince” (Attain Greatness, Believe and Conquer)

-“Hoc Deus vult “(God wills this)

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Best regards,
Maria
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Note that:

-Attain = ADIPISCERE (2nd.person singular, imperative of the deponent verb ADIPISCOR, I attain)

-Greatness = SUMMA (direct object, accusative plural of SUMMUS used in the neuter)

-Believe= CREDE (2nd.person singular, imperative of CREDO, I believe)

-and = ET

-Conquer = VINCE (2nd.person singular, imperative of VINCO, I conquer)

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-God = DEUS (subject, nominative case, 2nd.declension)

-wills = VULT (3rd.person singular, present indicative of  VOLO, I will)

-this =HOC (direct object, accusative neuter singular of the demonstrative HIC)

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