Question I am creative director working on a graduation logo. I want to motto to read, "Lordy, Lordy (as in God),Free At Last ---- in Latin! What would that be " Etru, Etru, Extrico ..........", perhaps?
Answer Hello,
If the word “Lordy” is a polite and shorter way of saying "Oh my dear God!" and “Free at last” means that someone has become free of entanglement as he has passed an examination and received his graduation, here’s the correct Latin translation of the motto “Lordy, Lordy, Free At Last”:
-“Bone Deus! Tandem enatavi!”, if this motto wants to refer to a 1st.person singular (Lordy, Lordy, I’m free at last)
-“Bone Deus! Tandem enatavimus!”,if it want to refer to a 1st.person plural (Lordy, Lordy, We are free at last).
[See below for grammatical analysis].
As for " Etru, Etru, Extrico”, I‘m sorry, but it is absolutely wrong first because “Etru” does not exist in Latin, second because “Extrico” is a transitive verb and then would need a direct object which there is not.
So the correct verb is ENATARE, as used by Cicero just in the sense of "to be free"/“to become free of entanglement”.
Anyway let me know if this matches your idea.
Have a nice day,
Maria
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Note that:
-Lordy, Lordy = BONE (vocative case of BONUS) DEUS (vocative of DEUS, God)
-Free = ENATAVI (1st.person singular. Past tense, of ENATO,I'm free/ I become free) or ENATAVIMUS (1st.person plural. Past tense of ENATO).
Note tha ENATO, whose infinitive is ENATARE, means literally "I escape by swimming” and metaphorically “I extricate myself”/ "I become free of entanglement" (See Cicero,"Tusculan Disputations", Book 5, chapter 30,paragraph 87 )
