#latin language

[interretialia]

Si aeroplana propter helices suas volare possunt Cur ventimolae propter suas helices volare non possunt?

If airplanes can fly because of their propellers Why can't windmills fly because of their propellers?

[ecceagnesdarling]

Do not tell anyone serious about this, but this online dictionary is just so useful. It's not a Lewis & Short nor an Ernesto Farias, I just found it by messing around.

It is easier to use than the more academic dicitionaries but the pro for me are the declinations and conjugations tables. It is a bit of corner cutting to check the table, but it makes it easier to translate when you still don't know the verb tenses.

Latin Dictionary Olivetti

Latin Dictionary: the best Latin dictionary with a conjugator and a Latin declension tool available online for free!

[001nspo]

Solipsism ( solus, ipse ) only one's own mind is certain to exist.

[ecceagnesdarling]

I think most people struggling with learning latin underestimate how much time you're supposed to spend translating in comparison to actual studying.

[translatingpostsintolatin]

Vale!

How do you choose which word for ‘to kill’ you use? I saw at least two different options today ‘incipere’ and ‘occidus’ (pls excuse any typos) and I know there are more, and that there is some degree of nuance, but it isn’t quite clear to me. Is it just vibes, or is there method to the madness?

there is some nuance in that the word “necō” implies killing without a weapon (so by poison, starvation etc) whereas “interficiō” and “occīdō” are more generic, “trucīdō” and “obtruncō” imply a certain degree of violence (literally they mean “to butcher” and “to cut to pieces”), “iugulō” means “to cut the throat”, and “caedō” is akin to English “to fell”

so the main distinction in this case is between “necō”, implying the absence of a weapon, “interficiō/occīdō”, the most generic terms afaik, and “trucīdō/obtruncō/iugulō” for more violent killing

what i usually do when there’s a bunch of words with the same general meaning (which happens a lot in Latin), is that i check the dictionary entries for each synonym way too many times just in case i missed some nuance that distinguishes them and then i try to choose appropriately

[ecceagnesdarling]

Falcón loves to humiliate us "this is easier because it's the vulgata, the latin was written to be understood by anyone, any semi-literate priest was supposed to get it"

[ecceagnesdarling]

I am awesome and I literally never had any doubt of that at any moment in my whole entire life