we love and dream together
Latin translation: Una amamus et somniamus
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Concente amamus et fingimus Explanation: My first thought was not to attempt this, because "together" is not so easy in Latin. So I went onto other things, until suddenly "concentus" occurred to me. This has the idea of "singing together", which is particularly attractive to me as a musican, but I think it is also a good solution for your lovely theme. I put it in the ablative "concente", which I could back-translate as "in harmony". Then I discovered that "dream" is not so easy either. The Romans had a quite different conception of dreams from ours, and I really do not think that "somnium" is appropriate here, being a very sleepy word. But how about "fingo, fingere", which is more to imagine, to conceive? Translating my suggestion back to English, semi-literally, I get "In harmony, we love, and fashion dreams". Or "... shape our dreams" or something like that. "Fingere" is not easy to back-translate here, but I think it is good. But you should get confirmation or correction of this (or just better ideas) before you get it engraved - I am not as sure of the grammar as I once was, nor word order, and maybe someone can come up with a better choice of words. Good luck, anyway" :-) |
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Una amamus et somniamus Explanation: Hope it helps! Anyway, best wishes. Silvia |
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