Expert: Maria Date: 6/22/2008 Subject: Latin translation
Question Hello,
I am doing a project for our military unit in memory of those who are no longer with us. I am wanting to put "Go with God, my brother. I will see you again in heaven." in Latin at the bottom of the memorial. Can you please translate that into Latin for me. And by "my brother" I mean in the sense of Comrade.
Thank you for your time.
Answer Hello,
the phrase you want to use in memory of those who unfortunately are no longer with you translates as follows:
-“Esto cum Deo, mi commilito. Te rursus in excelsis videbo coelis”.
All the best,
Maria
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Note that:
-Go = ESTO (2nd.person singular, imperative of SUM)
-with = CUM (preposition which takes the ablative)
-God = DEO (ablative of DEUS)
-my = MI (vocative of MEUS)
-brother (the sense of Comrade) = COMMILITO (vocative case, 3rd.declension).
-I will see = VIDEBO (future of VIDEO)
-you = TE (accusative)
-again = RURSUS
-in = IN (preposition which takes the ablative)
-heaven = EXCELSIS COELIS (ablative)
As you can see, Latin word order can be different from English just because Latin is an inflected language where syntactical relationships are indicated by the endings, not by the order of the words.
