Expert: Maria - 3/25/2007

Question
Hi, my name is Natalie and I was wondering if you could translate "Forever Love" into both Latin and Ancient Greek. Thank you so much!

~Natalie

Answer
Hello,

"Forever Love" is “ Amor Sempiternus” in Latin,  where the noun AMOR (in the nominative case)  means ‘love’ and the adjective SEMPITERNUS means ‘forever’.

As for ancient Greek, here’s the translation of ‘Forever Love’: “Eros Aionios” , where the noun EROS (nominative) means ‘love’ and the adjective AIONIOS means ‘forever’.

Best regards,
Maria
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Please note that I cannot use the Greek characters, because the system does not allow it. Therefore I used a transliteration from the Greek letters to the Latin alphabet.
Anyway I can give you the name of each Greek letter you can see at the sites below so that you can copy them, if you want.

So EROS is written as follows:
“epsilon with the smooth breathing and acute accent-rho-omega- final sigma”, while AIONIOS is written “alpha –iota with the smooth breathing-omega with the acute accent-nu-iota-omicron-final sigma”

Note that when written at the end of a word, the letter SIGMA  is written like a S. Otherwise it is written like  a  6.
As for the BREATHINGS, the rough breathing which denotes aspiration looks like a backwards comma written over a vowel, while  the smooth breathing which denotes absence  of aspiration looks like a regular comma written over a vowel.

http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html
http://www.dur.ac.uk/stat.web/greek.htm