Question Please can you help with an English-Latin translation. I would like to say "safety within the walls" or "Be / feel safe within the walls" where 'walls' is 'baillii' and 'safety' is 'securitas'.
I've had trouble with the locative form!
Answer Hello,
The translation of "Safety within the walls" or "Be / feel safe within the walls" is the following:
-“Securitas intra moenia“, if “the walls“ are the walls or fortifications of a city .
-“Securitas intra parietes”, if “the walls” are properly the walls of a house.
Both the above phrases mean “Safety within the walls”, of course.
As for “baillium”, it does not exist at all in Latin, where there is “vallum” (neuter noun, 2nd.declension) which however means “a palisade of stakes” as a fortification, a defence, like in VALLUM HADRIANI (Hadrian's Wall).
It is just from Latin VALLUM that the English word “wall” derives.
Finally I have to point out that in the above Latin sentences there is no locative form (see below for learning more).
With regard to “Be / feel safe within the walls", here's the translation:
-“Securus esto intra moenia / intra parietes”, if the adjective ‘safe’ (securus) refers to only one male person.
-“Secura esto intra moenia / intra parietes”, if the adjective ‘safe’ (secura) refers to only one female person
- “Securi estote intra moenia / intra parietes”, if the adjective ‘safe’ (securi) refers to 2 or more male persons.
-“Securae estote intra moenia / intra parietes”, if the adjective ‘safe’ (securae) refers to 2 or more female persons.
Best regards,
Maria
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Note that in “Safety within the walls”:
-within = INTRA (preposition which takes the accusative)
- the walls = MOENIA (accusative neuter plural, 2nd.declension) or PARIETES (accusative plural, 3rd.declension).
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In “Be / feel safe within the walls", note that:
-Be / feel = ESTO (imperative of SUM, in the 2nd.person singular) /ESTOTE (imperative of SUM,in the 2nd.person plural)
The LOCATIVE FORM indicates a place in, as in Latin DOMI ( “at home/ in the house”), RURI (in the country), ROMAE (at Rome), EBORACI (at York),etc.
For example DOMI SUM (I am at home); ROMAE SUM (I am at Rome), etc.
In “Safety within the walls” there is no locative, but the preposition “within” which translates as INTRA.
