Category: Latin - ROBERT E DUNN

english to latin

8/16/2022

A.D. 1453?

On May 29, 1453, Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire ended the Byzantine Empire. The Ottomans breached Constantinople’s ancient land wall after besieging the city for 55 days. The anthem, posted by Uncle Sam, begins at Pulchras.

Firmly I pledge Firme nunc me spondeo
my loyalty to thee Fidelis tibi maneo
Land of my Forefathers   Bella priorum cara patria
forever brimming with glory   Nunc et semper florens gloria
  A land of beauty     Pulchras terrae patriae
home of the courageous   Fortes terrae pro homines
Our Eternal Rome   Romae noster aeternae
the might of enemy ships Vis cavire domum navium
Threatens us in vain   Frustra ipsa impetur
it is a hopeless quest   Sunt sine spe
Turn away from deceit   Domus dulces portula
and sweet delusions   Fraudi ob sat
For the trumpets of War   Tubae militares vox
will call our Legions soon   Legionus procat mox
And across the fatherland Et in tota patria
a victory song will ring Cantus nicoliae resonat
And across the fatherland Et in tota patria
our song will resonate   Cantus nostrae resonat
A time of joy and pride   Tempus est in gaudium
for Eternal Rome. Superbia Roma aeterna.

latin made easier 2

8/15/2022

The first three minutes have English subtitles.

[refrain - r] Anima Christi, sanctifica me. Corpus Christi, salva me. Sanguis Christi, inebria me. Aqua lateris Christi, lava me. Passio Christi, conforta me. O bone Jesu, exaudi me. Intra vulnera tua absconde, absconde me. [r] Ne permittas a te me separari. Ab hoste maligno defende me. In hora mortis meae voca me, voca me. [r] Et jube me venire ad te, Ut cum Sanctis tuis laudem te, Et in finitas saecula saeculorum. [r] (Conforta strengthen not comfort)

Latin made easier 1

8/13/2022

The 10-minute video is useful to all Latin students.

The video gives instruction in Latin by means of the Mass, attended by virtually every saint since AD200-300. The pronunciation is ecclesiastical Latin, which the Church developed.

Some vocabulary: declension - nouns; conjugation - verbs; vocative (root for vocal or voice) - nouns, pronouns, and adjectives used to address or invoke a person or thing.

The priest and altar boys quietly pray Psalm 42 at the beginning of Mass, but it is preceded by the following:

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
P. Introibo ad altare Dei.
R. Ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
P. [Priest] I will go to the altar of God.
R. [Response from altar boy] To God, Who giveth joy to my youth.

Roman Missal 1962

quadraginta quinque

8/9/2022

v's r u's code 45202478usasemperfi

invention

8/3/2022

The word “invention” derives from the Latin inventiō, first person singular of invenīre, a combination of the preposition in and the verb venire, meaning “to come in” or “to come upon”.

Today we celebrate St. Stephen the First Martyr, the saint for whom my parish church is named. The Roman Missal, p 1139: quia ejus Inventiónem celebrámus, “for we celebrate the finding of him”. This is part of living tradition.

Now, how his bones were invented...

1) Gamaliel the Elder, Hebrew רַבַּן גַּמְלִיאֵל הַזָּקֵן, leading authority in the Sanhedrin, advises against killing the apostles, which is accepted, educated guess is he dies in AD52, saint
2) Nicodemus, Greek Νικόδημος, Pharisee, member of the Sanhedrin, appears after the Crucifixion to provide the embalming spices, assists Joseph of Arimathea in preparing the body, saint
3) Abibas, son of Gamaliel and brother of Nicodemus, saint
Sources say G, N, and A are baptized at the same time.
4) Lucian, Catholic priest

high mass hollywood

8/1/2022

Deena talks about wanting everything we had before 1960 (see How Many post). Desiring the Latin Mass is not desiring a return to the past. The Latin Mass is eternal, outside of time.

Deanna stars in Christmas Holiday from 1944. In the Solemn High Mass scene are snippets from a real Midnight Mass celebrated at the former Cathedral of Saint Vibiana of Los Angeles. Durbin was a good singer.

Andrew (14) was doing additional training before Mass yesterday. At a High Mass, there are levels of increasing responsibility. Here is a short list from the top down: Master of Ceremonies, Crucifer (Head Server), Acolyte 1-Book Bearer, Acolyte 2-Bells, Thurifer and Boat Bearer. Altar boys are ages 7 - 18.

Junior Acolyte: Silver Medal w/ribbon, signifying that the young man has learned all his Latin responses and has learned all the movements up to and including Acolyte 2 at Low Mass.
Senior Acolyte: Silver Medal w/cord, signifying that the young man has learned all of the movements up to and including Thurifer at Solemn High Mass.
MC: Gold Medal w/cord, signifying that the young man has mastered all the movements of every server at any type of Mass, the movements of the Priest, Deacon, and Sub-Deacon, and is able to effectively teach these positions to other servers.

We had a visitor, Father Zachary Akers, FSSP, also a good singer, Director of Development, Clarks Summit, PA.

Domine, non sum dignus ut intres sub tectum meus...
Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldst enter under my roof...

Tectum in Latin means roof. The word “protect” came into English by way of the Latin verb protegere, a combination of pro, meaning “in front”, and tegere, meaning “to cover”. When you protect something, in a way you’re covering it or shielding it from harm. Hence, tectum, roof.

Stephen

7/31/2022

Meaning
Stephen c. 5 – c. 33-36, age 28-32
Greek: Στέφανος Stéphanos (Latin alphabet)
Hebrew: סטפנוס הקדוש, Stephanos HaQadosh (Latin alphabet)
The name means “wreath, crown” and by extension “reward, honor, renown, fame”, often given as a title rather than as a name.

Martyrdom
According to Acts, he was a deacon in the early Church at Jerusalem and angered members of various synagogues. Accused of blasphemy at his trial, he made a speech denouncing the Jewish authorities sitting in judgment of him and was then stoned to death. Before his conversion, St. Paul, a Roman citizen and Pharisee, participated in Stephen’s martyrdom. We commemorate him this coming Wednesday.

Miracles
From the desk of Father Joshua Curtis, FSSP, St. Stephen the First Martyr, Sacramento, CA – “The discovery of the relics of St. Stephen was one of the most magnificent chapters in the history of the early Church. St. Augustine, who heard of and witnessed many miracles in the presence of these relics, was not able even to record all of them: ‘What am I to do? I am so pressed by the promise of finishing this work that I cannot record all the miracles I know.’”

eight voices

Lux aeterna Eternal Light
Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine, May eternal light shine on them, Lord,
cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es.   With your saints forever, for you are good.
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,   Give them eternal rest, Lord.
et lux perpetua luceat eis, quia pius es.   And may perpetual light shine upon them, for you are good.

New anarchy

7/29/2022

I saw the term, “New Anarchy”, in a quiz and was stumped. Wikipedia defines contemporary anarchy this way: “Anarchists are generally committed against coercive authority in all forms, namely ‘all centralized and hierarchical forms of government (e.g., monarchy, representative democracy, state socialism, etc.), economic class systems (e.g., capitalism, Bolshevism, feudalism, slavery, etc.), autocratic religions (e.g., fundamentalist Islam, Roman Catholicism, etc.), patriarchy, heterosexism, white supremacy, and imperialism.’” I did not know we were deemed an autocratic religion.

Now, if you would like to listen to someone who is not against everything, someone who is an “autocrat”, a video follows (40 mins). He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Princeton in 1972. He is speaking in Rome, of all places, and even uses a Latin phrase, post hoc, ergo propter hoc, translated as “after this, therefore because of this”. Example: after the rooster crows, the sun comes up, therefore the sun comes up because the rooster crows. The speaker uses the phrase to poke fun at someone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uci4uni608E

A good example of what he is talking about is St. Katharine Drexel (1858-1955). Born into the wealthy banking family of Philadelphia, she used her portion of a $15 million trust fund, shared with two sisters, and founded schools for American Indians and blacks, including Xavier University in New Orleans.

According to Xavier, her father, Francis, “…had put the money in trust and indicated that the income from the trust was to be equally divided by his daughters and their offspring, not their husbands. His intent was to ward off suitors who might be looking for money. If at the death of the third daughter, there were no surviving offspring, the principal of the trust was to be divided among a group of Philadelphia area charities that he designated.”

In 1922, a local KKK group turned against Mother Katharine’s school in Beaumont, TX. What did the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament do? The story goes that they prayed, and a tornado destroyed the KKK headquarters.

heliacal

7/26/2022

Heliacal [hə-LIH-ə-kəl] means relating to or near the Sun. This word is based on both the Latin “hēliacus,” and the Greek “ἡλιακός,” both meaning “sun”. (credit wordgenius.com) I think I will throw in another Latin word here because I see it quite often: cunctis means to all. It makes me think of conk.

colusa ca

7/25/2022

I met a walnut farmer and his family at Mass yesterday. His name is Ralph Keeley IV, and his farm is in Colusa, CA, which is 70 miles from St. Stephen the First Martyr in Sacramento, CA. I met his mom, Susan L. Keeley, a professional life coach, rhgcoaching.com.

Antonio comes from Lafayette, 70 miles. Previously, I mentioned Jacob from Oroville, 70 miles, and Carl from Red Bluff, 140 miles. Other distant locations are Lodi, Valley Springs, Grass Valley, and Shingle Springs. I am told that a family comes from Tahoe, 110 miles. The Latin Mass brings people together from all over Northern California.

Why? What’s the secret?

Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

prime meridian

7/21/2022

Did you know that earth has four sections? They are man made. The hemispheres divide the world. The equator separates the Northern and Southern hemispheres at zero degrees latitude. The prime meridian separates the Western and Eastern hemispheres at zero degrees longitude. Any line of longitude could serve as the zero-longitude line. However, earthlings agreed that the meridian that runs through Greenwich, England, would be, and is, the prime meridian.

Allie the Alien did not bone up on her Latin before she was contacted. Ergo, she will spend one Earth hour in detention at undisclosed coordinates. The equator (noun) comes from the Latin verb, aequare, “to make equal”.

pange/tantum

7/21/2022

catholic woman speaks

7/18/2022

Definitions

“sede” abbreviated form of sede vacante, Latin for sedevacantism, a doctrinal position holding that, because the present occupier of the Chair of St. Peter is not a valid pope for his espousal of one or more heresies, the See of Rome is vacant
“ad hominem” Latin for argument directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining (looms large on social media)
“Novus Ordo” Latin for New Order

latin rap

7/17/2022

Si bellum vis para bellum. If you want war, prepare for war.
The commenters on YouTube raved, Latin syntax at its best, concise and weighty, fierce, too. When Altan starts Latin I end of August, I will send it to him. He could do it in front of class with some other boys (Catholic boys school) for extra credit from his Magister and get some laughs. He turns 14 in September.
Pugna iam carpe diem. Fight now, seize the day.

This is my attitude about half of the day every day.

genuflection

7/14/2022

etymology of genuflection: Latin genu + flectere
genu meaning “knee” and flectere meaning “to bend”

Not fond of “tribulation”: “dogfight” sounds better. Vigano is in hiding, which explains his freedom to speak. Schneider of Kazakhstan and Vigano of At Large are the bravest bishops. His comment uses two rhetorical devices: (1) repetendum, derived from Latin and meaning repetition, and (2) parataxis, derived from Greek and meaning to place side by side. The latter is a rhetorical term in which phrases and clauses are placed one after another independently, not coordinating or subordinating them with conjunctions.

latin 4 english

7/12/2022

Definitions: (1) an inflected language changes the spelling or ending of a word to show how it is used; (2) an epicurean indulges in luxury, pleasure, food, drink.

The narrator mixes vulgar pronunciation, not vulgar as we use the word, with classical.

Pause the video as needed. The Tacitus put-down is so funny. Guess what? The English word tacit, meaning unspoken or implied, comes from the Latin tacitus.

classical pronunciation

Alea iacta est. The die has been cast. The die would be God’s plan.
Audax et fidelis. Bold but faithful. Catholics who resolutely keep tradition.
Quid in luce aeternitatis? What is it in the light of eternity? Roman Missal, p 1,816

raca

7/10/2022

Latin interjection meaning “Idiot!” or “Putz!”

I saw the word in today’s Gospel and did not know its meaning.

Quī autem dīxerit frātrī suō, raca!, reus erit conciliō. And whoever says to his brother, idiot!, shall be liable to answer to the council.

4th century, Saint Jerome, Vulgate, Matthew 5:22

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥακά (rhaká), from Aramaic רֵיקָא‎ (rēqā, “worthless person”, from Classical Syriac ܪܝܩܐ‎ (rēqā, “vanity”).

latin march

7/8/2022

LAT. Nos signa sequimur, quocumque nos ducunt.

ENG. We follow the standards, wherever they lead us.

Latin uses Romance vowels, but when written by a Roman, the u vowel looks like a v.

Latin words are expressive, especially when put to music. The rhythm and meter of the songs below English teachers call trochaic heptameter: accented syllable, then unaccented, accented, then unaccented, and repeat, seven times in all, ending, however, with an accented syllable.

Julius Caesar (100 B.C. - 44 B.C.) formed the 14th Legion in 57 B.C. The Roman Republic became the Roman Empire in 27 when Julius’s adopted son, Caesar Augustus (63 B.C. - A.D. 14), became emperor. How did he do it? Four years before, in 31, Augustus won a victory over Mark Antony and the Egyptian fleet at the Battle of Actium. Acclaimed a hero, he proceeded cleverly to stake his position.

Here is another march, same trochaic heptameter.

So there came to pass, not long after Augustus, the words that are part of the Roman Missal: Haec quotiescúmque facéritis in mei memóriam faciétis. As often as ye shall do these things, ye shall do them in memory of Me. The most sensational word on earth and in heaven has got to be quotiescúmque, as often as, Jacob (22) and I hath agreed.

“It is generally agreed that Christians, having started with a few dozen adherents in A.D. 33, made up ten percent of the Empire by around 300, which is six million people, and that by 350 that figure was over 30 million, with Christians now a clear majority of the Empire.” Of course, this gentleman is referring to Catholics. I changed the date from 30 to 33 but nothing else.

https://kyleorton.co.uk/2021/06/11/how-many-christians-were-there-in-the-roman-empire/

My mother’s name was Barbara, but she was not barbarous! Etymology. From Latin Barbara, the name of Saint Barbara, feminine form of barbarus, from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “strange, foreign”). Doublet of Varvara (Russian).

call me maybe

7/8/2022

English - Call Me Maybe
Carly, North America, she is real: "pennies and diamonds for a kiss - crazy"

Latin - Voca Me Forsan
Dido, North Africa, she is mythological: "pecuniam ad osculum - insanum"

latin high

7/6/2022

“During the era of Marcus Aurelius, [Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius Augustus, A.D. 121-180] the separation between High Latin and Vulgar Latin was already noticeable. Now, High Latin would be what we consider Received Pronunciation. It was less and less anyone’s mother tongue, but rather something which was learned and considered as a status sign. Everyone else spoke Vulgar.”
…

“We do not know when the last native speaker of High Latin died. Most likely it happened sometime in the 6th century. But we can say for certainty that Vulgar Latin superseded High Latin as spoken language. High Latin remained only as the language of written documents.”

Susanna Viljanen, Quora contributor, Aalto University, Finland

Vulgar Latin is the same as ecclesiastical Latin, a historical phenomenon.

latin library

7/6/2022

wise Latin -
Acta, non verba action not words
Discendo, discimis. By teaching, we learn.
Ad astra, per aspera through hardships to the stars
Astra inclinat, sed non obligant. The stars incline us; they do not bind us.
Dum spiro, spero. While I breathe, I hope.
Amor vincit omnia. Love conquers all.
Aere perrenius more lasting than bronze
Felix culpa happy fault (qui adduxit me ad dominum nostrum - that brought me to Our Lord)
Barba tenus sapientus wise as his beard

beautiful Latin -
Imber rain shower
Solis occasum setting of the sun
Lux brumalis light of winter
Aurora borealis morning light from the north
Apricus full of sunlight
Crepusculum twilight
Manus in malo hand in hand
In perpetuum et unum diem forever and one day
Alis propiis volat. She flies with her own wings.
Mellifluus flowing with honey
Susurrus to whisper (onomatopoeia)
Meliora better things

scary Latin -
Fulminare to flash with thunderbolts
Brutum fulmen senseless threat
Umbra shadow

Stolen from Kate Miller-Wilson

Parent to pubescent, principal to pupil, priest to penitent:

repetend

7/6/2022

“Nevermore” is the repetend in “The Raven”. Repetend is derived from the Latin, repetendum, meaning repetition. A Latin teacher might oft say, “Repete post me.” Repeat after me. Shakespeare asks this Roman orator to plead by repetend.

Great orations are in Henry V, too.

caught

7/3/2022

If someone were to ask me how I became a Catholic, the answer is in the Gospel.

“And Jesus saith to Simon, Fear not: from henceforth thou shalt catch men.” Noli timéri: ex hoc jam hómines eris cápiens. I was caught.

Luke 5, 1-11. Jesus tells Peter to lower his nets. Sea of Galilee.

latin play

7/3/2022

December 13, 2021
“Salve Regina” by Raymond Lefèvre (1929-2008)
Trad Latin Mass, Prague, Church of the Assumption and St. Charles the Great
Kryštof Zuska, organist

q-uantity & q-uality

7/2/2022

The vexillum (flag), with its SPQR insignia emblazoned in gold (Senatus Populusque Romanus - Senate and People of Rome), is superimposed on the map of the Roman Empire when it was at its height.
File created December 2, 2012. Author DrRandomFactor. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. No changes were made.

The upper and lower case cursive way we learned to form the letter “Q” is shown.

In Latin, it is a predominant letter, appearing in words of every part of speech except prepositions. The Roman numeral Q can be used to represent 500,000.

Author – Alma Cebrian – created June 22, 2014, no changes made
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q#/media/File:Q_cursiva.gif

Make Latin great again.