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I was doing some Christmas shopping and found this site that has a bunch of medieval geekery. To my surprise, a few of their items feature genuine historic Latin from the Bayeux Tapestry.

(I have no affiliation with or further knowledge about this site.)

As the title suggests, I bought the two pages shown in the photo in a flea market (in the UK) coming up for around ten years or so ago now. I believe one is in Latin and the other French? As the purchase price was very cheap, only around £5 I’ve always suspected they might be replicas however the more I’ve seen similar items online or in museums the more they feel like they might be genuine. Looking to try and achieve an accurate translation and to try and find out how I may be able to verify them if I can - thanks in advance for any help provided

I just started high school Latin and have never learned any Latin prior, I have my first test and was wondering how to tell the difference between an adjective and a noun bc I heard that they most of the time have the same/similar endings unlike verbs that mostly end with -t or -nt. If anyone could give me an answer or a tip , I’d really appreciate it!

Hello reddit! i got a probably stupid question, so acording to google translate magno means great but idk in what sense, dose it mean great as in the sense of good or dose it mean in a sense something large? or is it both depending on context?

The Last Roman God", a highly anticipated historical epic focusing on the life of Emperor Diocletian, is scheduled for official theatrical release this Thursday, October 29, 2026.

Notably filmed entirely in authentic Vulgar Latin, this ambitious cinematographic production chronicles his rise to absolute power and the complex final years of his reign in Split. A preview scene from the feature film is available for viewing via this official video link.

His diebus proximis, nundinas librarias antiquarias atque exhibitionem adii, ibique cum quodam viro amabili colloquebar. Inde discessi paucis centenis nummorum pauperior, sed aliquot centenis milibus partibus beatior!

Exemplar operis Opuscula Mythologica, Ethica et Physica: Graece et Latine, egregie servatum!

Membrana (vellum), aurum, Graeca Latinaque verba iuxta posita... aaaaaaa i'm so excitedvissimus!!

my latin a bit rusty so sry if it bad <:D

This is from my grandma, who was a collector. She said it might be from a 15th-17th cent Book of Hours, but I’d love to know more!

idk if its my autism and adhd but i find latin easier to read when cases are more clustered bc i can partition phrases in my head like
"(hoc bellum) [quis umquam arbitraretur] aut \ab omnibus imperatoribus\ {uno anno} aut {omnibus annis} \ab uno imperatore\ confici posse"

but regarding works where the cases are less clustered and with relative clauses interposed between x and y clause i struggle like with
"Laelius. Atqui, Cato, gratissimum nobis, ut etiam pro Scipione pollicear, feceris, si, quoniam speramus, volumus quidem certe senes fieri, multo ante a te didicerimus, quibus facillime rationibus ingravescentem aetatem ferre possimus"

bc to me its easier to read if its written like
"feceris nobis gratissimum cato, ut pro scipione pollicear, quoniam speramus, volumus senes fieri, si multo ante a te didicerimus, etc"

i was hoping if there are any tips with regarding regarding the latter? thx you

In my pursuit of a modern Whitaker's Words including macrons. I've decided not to use an algorithmic approach to determine the macrons but rather hard encode Whitaker's compiled knowledge base.

I have about 25% of macronised using the books sources Whitaker's used (obtain from the source code) for inflections and stems from Wiktionary.

You can try it here: http://whitakerslatin.xyz/

You can fall back to legacy and disable displaying / searching using macrons.

The program now gives correct output for malum / mālum, liber / līber etc.

I've had to create a new category for do, dare, dedi, datus but otherwise the search algorithms / Whitaker's ontology holds up for macrons (so far....).

Macrons can be presented by a '_' after the letter or using the Unicode representation.

For those interested, I'd appreciate any testing or reports of incorrect words.

These can be reported on the website.

The code / knowledge base is freely available at https://codeberg.org/pndmnm/wwords under a MIT No-AI License.

Thanks.

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Hello! I’m a film director and screenwriter. I have a specific part in a short screenplay that has Latin phrases and I would love to connect with someone, who can help with the proper pronunciation and translation.

Hi! I'm studying Latin for school and was wondering where I could find English translations of Roy Hyde's Latin Unseen Translation. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I was wondering if there was a better way to add time into the app that was spent on third party things

For instance I'm using LLPSI, and I wanted to track my total listening time alongside my usage of legentibus, however you can only input external term in 5 minute intervals, which is awkward rounding especially over such a long time to fluency

I was wondering if there was any other way to record the time into the app

Thanks for any advice

Am I completely wrong, or is it possible and common in Classical Latin to use the same pronoun repeatedly in a paragraph or text while referring to the same person or thing? I believe that I have seen this at least with demonstrative pronouns of different distance meanings. Is that actually the case? If it is, to what pronouns does this apply and with which might it not work? Is this common throughout all eras? Would repeating "ille" or "hic" usually prevail over any usage of "is" in ambiguous situations?

I just wonder because according to my experience, modern-day (Western) European languages rarely allow this, using demonstrative pronouns usually just once for introduction or contrastive emphasis, and taking quantors usually just once when that fact is introduced, while later occurences of the same entity have to be expressed by personal pronouns or by repeating the names/nouns or by using descriptive alternatives or "the former/the latter" and equivalents. Even in German, where demonstrative pronouns still show the same inflections as personal pronouns and are used more often than in English or French, especially for grammatical objects or when grammatical roles are reversed between sentences, I would often perceive repeated usage of "dieser" and "jener" with the same referent/meaning as archaic or very artificial and formal, probably also emulating a Latin-like style. Demonstrative pronouns in more natural-sounding texts would rather seldom follow each other and might also change their referent between sentences of the same paragraph. (Maybe it might also be influenced by the circumstance that in some languages, like contemporary German, the distinction between proximal and distal demonstrative pronouns has rather blurred or disappeared.)

Is that actually a remarkable part of Latin style or did just make up this difference? Is there evidence which may answer whether this was always an elevated style or normal language usage?

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Hello!

I am a native Greek speaker and a graduate of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Department of Classics. I have also worked in my apprenticeship in Historical and Palaeographical Archive of the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece (MIET) as a curator for manuscripts (mainly psalters of the Comnenian era).

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Sixteen Latin words, four hidden groups. Can you find them? Quattuor, a new Latin puzzle every day!

Hi everyone!

I am going to travel to Naples soon, and wonder whether there are some good places to buy latin books there ( for a reasonable price ). Thanks for the recommendations in advance!

Basically I've been collecting terms of affection and romantic phrases in Latin, I've spent countless hours on this and I'd like to share what I've found.

mea amata - my beloved

carissima - dearest

mea mellitula - my little honey

te adamo - I love you (deeply)

cara mea - my dear

lux mea - my light

dea mea - my goddess

And I think "mea es tu omnia" is "You are my everything" but I could be wrong somewhere here.

In omni loco sacrificatur et offertur nomini meo oblatio munda (Malachi 1:11).
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Verum sacrifícium est omne opus, quo ágitur ut sancta societáte inhæreámus Deo, relátum scílicet ad illum finem boni, quo veráciter beáti esse possímus. Unde et ipsa misericórdia, qua hómini subvenítur, si non propter Deum fit, non est sacrifícium. Etsi enim ab hómine fit vel offértur, tamen sacrifícium res divína est, ita ut hoc quoque vocábulo id Latíni véteres appelláverint. Unde ipse homo Dei nómine consecrátus et Deo votus, in quantum mundo móritur ut Deo vivat, sacrifícium est. Nam et hoc ad misericórdiam pértinet, quam quisque in se ipsum facit. Proptérea scriptum est: Miserére ánimæ tuæ placens Deo.

Cum ígitur vera sacrifícia ópera sint misericórdiæ sive in nos ipsos sive in próximos, quæ referúntur ad Deum; ópera vero misericórdiæ non ob áliud fiant, nisi ut a miséria liberémur ac per hoc ut beáti simus (quod non fit nisi bono illo, de quo dictum est: Mihi autem adhærére Deo bonum est), profécto effícitur, ut tota ipsa redémpta cívitas, hoc est congregátio societásque sanctórum, universále sacrifícium offerátur Deo per sacerdótem magnum, qui étiam se ipsum óbtulit in passióne pro nobis, ut tanti cápitis corpus essémus, secúndum formam servi. Hanc enim óbtulit, in hac oblátus est, quia secúndum hanc mediátor est, in hac sacérdos, in hac sacrifícium est.

Cum ítaque nos hortátus esset Apóstolus, ut exhibeámus córpora nostra hóstiam vivam, sanctam, Deo placéntem, rationábile obséquium nostrum, et non conformémur huic sǽculo, sed reformémur in novitáte mentis nostræ; ad probándum quæ sit volúntas Dei, quod bonum et bene plácitum et perféctum, quod totum sacrifícium nos ipsi sumus: Dico enim, inquit, per grátiam Dei, quæ data est mihi, ómnibus, qui sunt in vobis, non plus sápere, quam opórtet sápere, sed sápere ad temperántiam; sicut unicuíque Deus partítus est mensúram fídei. Sicut enim in uno córpore multa membra habémus, ómnia autem membra non eósdem actus habent: ita multi unum corpus sumus in Christo; sínguli autem alter alteríus membra, habéntes dona divérsa secúndum grátiam, quæ data est nobis.

Hoc est sacrifícium christianórum: multi unum corpus in Christo. Quod étiam sacraménto altáris fidélibus noto frequéntat Ecclésia, ubi ei demonstrátur quod in ea re, quam offert, ipsa offerátur.

E Libris sancti Augustíni epíscopi De Civitáte Dei (Lib. 10, 6).
De Officio Lectionum. Feria sexta hebdomadae XXVIII per annum.

Dear members of the forum,

I have just found a guide for learners:

from a source:

Notebook to learn in Latin, no translation

(no space before 'dot com' and likewise for hyperlinks)

a) COURSE FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS

Total Physical Response: live classes are more effective than online ones.

Polis – The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities. n.d. Accessed 9 18, 2026. link:polisjerusalem .org/

b) see attached picture

‘UNUS, DUO, TRES: LATINE LOQUAMUR PER SCAENAS ET IMAGINES’:

Rico, Christophe. 2022*.* secunda: sample on Amazon website viewed on computer. Edited by Fabrice Butlen. 8 HaAyin Het St, 9511208 Jerusalem, Israel: Polis Institute Press. Accessed 8 30, 2026.

link:amazon .com/Unus-Duo-Tres-loquamur-Sequential/dp/9657698138/?asin=9657698138&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

c) ‘LATIN TPR (TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE)’ PLAYLIST

At 0:35 of video ‘salvēte discipulī! | Hello students! | Latin TPR #1’ from:

Found in Antiquity: Latin. 2022. Vers. (Latin subtitles). YouTube. 1 31. Accessed 9 17, 2026.

link:youtube .com/watch?v=w9a-xcIe9hk&list=PLXi1m1_th92p6b9tIXFU863l94H0boO2L&index=1

d) ?

PDF and UPDATING THIS NOTEBOOK:

n.d. "Notebook on Lingua Latina." Vers. PDF. Dropbox. DMSAK. Accessed 10 7, 2026.

link: dropbox .com/scl/fo/tkkzlu8xkpg8dpxqhb1eo/AMoMMKXNMo2KvHbVLoDs2tM?rlkey=bu7x1pva0dfoka2bcizsapc0c

I hope this information will be useful for people interested in.

Regards

It's a Renaissance medical text. Context: Aesculapius is comparing the spirit in the body with the Sun in the sky. Like the Sun hides at night and appears at morning, so the spirit.

The sentence I can't understand very well is the uderlined one.

excusso de toto corporis conclavi nocturno tempore

As I see, there's to syntagmas above which "excusso" is acting upon.

1. de toto conclavi corporis
2. nocturno tempore

I've also seen that "excutio aliquem somno" means "I wake someone up", but can also mean "shake off, cast out".

How would you translate the whole sentence? (my English translations are not good)

Is it "having woken up from nocturnal sleep (I need to mantain the reference to sleep) from the body chamber"?

or

"having been cast out from the chamber of the body during nocturnal sleep"

or another thing?

I appreciate every help!