Expert: Maria - 7/2/2007

Question
Hi.
Can you perhaps translate the following phrase into Latin for me?I would really appreciate it."The Glory of God is Intelligence."
V.Hamilton

Answer
Hello,

Here’s the translation you asked me:

-“Dei gloria est intellegentia”.

Also with a different word order:

-“Intellegentia gloria est Dei”.

Best regards,
Maria
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-The Glory = GLORIA (nominative case, 1st.declension)

-of God = DEI (genitive of DEUS, 2nd.declension)

-is = EST (from the verb SUM, I am)

-Intelligence = INTELLEGENTIA  (nominative case, 1st.declension).

As you can see, Latin word order  can be variable and often depends on writing style of an author.
Anyway Latin declension by cases gets everyone (i.e. a reader or listener) to  discern the case of a word.