please translate these three words! want them abs correcttt

translate them into what?

haha .. sorry - i'm being ditzy .


from english to latin. ::sorry::

fortitudo
amor
vires

Use "caritas" instead of "amor" if you mean "love" in the sense of affection or charity.

The problem is, they don't necessarily translate exactly into one-word equivalents--the constellation of meanings associated with the possible translations isn't exactly cognate with English;

Try www.freedict.com/onldict/lat.html
or
www.sunsite.ubc.ca/LatinDictionary
or google English-Latin Dictionary.

For courage, "fortitudo" correlates with "physical strength, courage, moral bravery", "animus" with "character, intellect, memory, consciousness, courage, vivacity, bravery, will, spirit, soul"; and "ferocitas" with "courage, untamed spirit/arrogance". Your choice.

"strength" comes back "vis" or "vires"(which is the plural of vis). "vis" correlates with "violence, a large number, quatity, a force; nature force, power, strength, might, influence"; and "vires" is (or are) "force, power, strength, might, influence".

username, you make a very good point.
Thanks for the dictionary references.
Let me add the Perseus Project at Tufts University.
Latin to English
English to Latin

And remember, inclassical Latin there is no letter U

Yeah, but that was due to the lobbying of the stone-cutters' union.

WHODA THVNK?

ITAQVE

They won't no "J" neither, just as Ivlivs Caesar.

He musta learned that from some Roman dude.

Prolly . . . ol' Ivlivs weren't no original thinker . . .

you guys are pretty much awesome & thanks a lot for your help (:

You're welcome, laidd0wn_3.

does anyone know how to pronunciate these? can i have a syllable break-down, possibly?



i feel pathetic ):

I can give you the pronunciation I learned. It's what they call
"ecclesiastical" because it was used in Catholic services. There's
also a "classical" pronunciation that scholars tell us was how the
ancient Romans prounced Latin.

fortitudo -- forteeTOOdo
amor -- AHmor
vires -- VEEres

I think the only change using classical pronunciation wold be that 'vires'
would be pronounced WEEres.