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Latin motto for drinking club

 
 
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Reply Sat 20 Dec, 2008 04:40 pm
Please could you translate "Beer/Wine/Alcohol is my light" into Latin? I know "Dominus Illuminatio Mea" (The Lord is my light) is the motto of my university, and I'd like to be able to adapt it for a drinking club. Thanks
 
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Reply Sat 20 Dec, 2008 05:07 pm
Cerevisia/Vinum/Alcohol* Illuminatio Mea

*I don't believe the Romans had a word for "alcohol as such.
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Reply Sat 20 Dec, 2008 09:15 pm
Thanks George!
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Reply Sat 20 Dec, 2008 10:53 pm
You're welcome.
...and remember -- don't get illuminated and drive.
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Reply Sun 21 Dec, 2008 07:43 pm
En vino veritas ( In wine: truth) skit on video veritas (seeing is believing)
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Reply Sun 9 Aug, 2009 10:58 am
En is the spanish spelling, not the latin spelling. Thus it should be "In vino veritas"

Also, while this is not a direct translation for what the original was asking, I believe that this is a better idiomatic translation. Another way to say the same thing would be to use "luce" instead of "illimunatio"
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Reply Sun 9 Aug, 2009 11:01 am
That's actually the spanish spelling of "in" not the latin. The latin would be "in vino veritas." While not a literal translation of the original post, I feel that this idiomatic translation is a better translation myself.

Also, another way to say the same thing would be to use "luce" in place of "illuminatio"
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Reply Sun 9 Aug, 2009 12:08 pm
Nunc est bibendum

Now is [the time] to drink. That was the rallying cry of the German student fraternities in old Heidelberg in Medieval days. *

*[I should know; I was there.]
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