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How do you say "Out of One, Many" in Latin?

I know "E pluribus unum" is Latin for "Out of Many, One," I want to know how to say in Latin the opposite of that, "Out of One, Many."

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  • 1 decade ago
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    ex uno, plures.

    changing the sequence of the words is no solution. E (or ex, before a vowel) makes the noun go to the ablative (another ending of the word) (therefore uno in stead of unum), and the "many" that had the ablative ending -ibus after the E in the original quote, now becomes a nominative: plures.

    I am wondering what it would mean though.. could you add an example of how you would use it?

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    One Out Of Many

  • hone
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Out Of Many One

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Funny question, and important too.. The Latin language of the Roman Empire lost out to new languages by indigenous populations not Latin or changed into so-called "Latinate" languages--French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan etc. It was last used b government officials and priests and the use was replaced in most areas by English, German, the vulgate or commonly-used forms, etc. It's tough on latins, but there are people who till study it and used it--it has to be the most popular dead language on planet Earth. I hope it never dies; I'll study it along with Homeric Greek in my next lifetime. Thanks for asking. Star coming.

  • 1 decade ago

    Try changing the 'order' of the words (pronouns)! ("E unum pluribus") Latin was 'challenging' when I studied it, close to 45 years ago! It was a LOT different than 'Spanish', which I also studied before Latin! The 'endings' ARE important, to both, and so are the letters at the end of the words, which denote gender, tense, and even CASE! (or Caste)! But, the ORDER of the words (which one was FIRST in the sentence) was VERY important! (the DOG could bite the MAN! Or, the MAN could bite the DOG!)

    Without waxing philosophical, ABRAHAM is 'one' who would 'fit' YOUR 'description'! (NOT 'Lincoln' -- the ABRAHAM who would number his 'seed' as the 'Stars in the Sky'!) "Out of One, Many"!

    Not sure what your 'POINT' is, but I hope this helps! ( I WOULD be interested to know!)

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    "Religion-wise, I consider myself a Henotheistic Eclectic.

    FYI, I spell the single primary deity's name as "Godd" to represent my belief that S/He is "made" of all the GODs and GODDesses." *** "Religion-wise,"... I'm not sure what all that 'stuff' means... Butt (and I spell it THAT way for a 'reason'), to ME, as long as you recognize that there IS, 'some' SUPREME 'BEING', who is in 'CONTROL', I really don't care WHAT you 'call' IT, or how you SPELL 'IT'!

    GOOD LUCK, on your 'answer!'!

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    How do you say "Out of One, Many" in Latin?

    I know "E pluribus unum" is Latin for "Out of Many, One," I want to know how to say in Latin the opposite of that, "Out of One, Many."

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    e pluribum unus... latin is all about ending.

    "um"=genitive, which shows possession, or "of" something..."the teddy bare of my mother" is genetive and in latin, that case is expressed by the ending of a word "um".

    Source(s): Latin class
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