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Fri 2 Mar, 2007 11:10 pm
Please translate - " Dynamic Harmony" into Latin.
Many thanks - Ian
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Contrex - I am currently having a logo designed and "Dynamic Harmony"
I believe represents our ultimate goal. The Latin translation would sound better.
OK, Ian, I'm with you now. The problem with many requests for Latin translations that one sees on here is that people often seem to think that it is possible to make word-for-word translations of just about anything expressible in modern English.
The problem with the word "dynamic" is that it expresses ideas probably unknown to the Romans.
It entered the English language around 1820, as a term in philosophy and around 1830 in the sense "force producing motion", from the Greek dynamikos "powerful". The figurative sense of "active, potent, energetic" is from around 1850.
Similarly, the word "harmony" initially had a strictly musical meaning. Later it came to have a figurative meaning of "agreement" for which the Romans would have most likely used the word "consensio", or "balance", for which "pondera" is perhaps an appropriate Latin equivalent.
So perhaps "consensio activo" would be getting somewhere near, if you mean "active harmony", or maybe "consensio potens" if you mean "powerful, robust, strong harmony"?
Or "pondera activa" or "pondera potens"?
Do you see the difficulty?
Latin translation
Many thanks Contrex.
This, then will be highly inappropriate. "Dynamic" in the term that I need it defined is in a 'dynamics, mechanical' sence.
I am in the horse business and am looking for a unique and unusual logo - hence "Dynamic Harmony". Meaning every part of that horse is in perfect balance and working beautifully. "Poetry in Motion" type thing.
Should you be able to come up with something clever I would be most appreciative.
Regards - Ian