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Conversion of English phrase into Latin

 
 
Reply Sun 8 Feb, 2009 05:53 pm
Can anybody translate the following into Latin please?

"A fiery gift from God"
and/or
"My fiery gift from God"

Note: in this context "fiery" means "passionate", "vivacious" etc.
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Reply Sun 8 Feb, 2009 06:09 pm
@Escaped from UK,
Donum ardens a Deo

Donum ardens meum a Deo
Escaped from UK
 
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Reply Sun 8 Feb, 2009 08:53 pm
@George,
Thanks George!

Could I ask you a follow up question? This is actually for my son...he appreciates your response so far but he was curious as to the word "Deo".
Do you know how one would pronounce that particular word and lets say it was to form part of a tattoo....would there be any special characters involved or would it be exactly as you wrote it (Deo)?

Also,
The birthdate 05/22/07 ... how would that be represented in Latin? (Seems odd to ask that question as clearly that date is well after Latin was originally used but I'm sure there must be some way to represent a date.)

Again, thanks!
George
 
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Reply Fri 13 Feb, 2009 11:08 am
@Escaped from UK,
First of all, please have someone else reveiw this before committing to a tattoo.
I'm not a professional Latin scholar, just a guy who does this for fun.

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Could I ask you a follow up question? This is actually for my son...he appreciates your response so far but he was curious as to the word "Deo".
Do you know how one would pronounce that particular word and lets say it was to form part of a tattoo....would there be any special characters involved or would it be exactly as you wrote it (Deo)?

It's pronounced DAYoh. Yeah, like the song.
You don't need any special characters.

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The birthdate 05/22/07 ... how would that be represented in Latin? (Seems odd to ask that question as clearly that date is well after Latin was originally used but I'm sure there must be some way to represent a date.)

A.D. XI KAL. IUN. MMIX p. Chr. n.
which is the abbreviated way of writing:
Ante diem undecimum Kalendas Iunius anno bis millesimo nono post Christum natum
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