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Experienced Latin speaker to translate please?
I would like the phrase: "home of magic" translated to Latin. ("house of magic" will do, also)
PLEASE do not just use Google Translate, I have already tried, and after learning German I know that it is defiantly not reliable.
Thanks a lot!
2 Answers
- InselstrickenLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
People do not speak Latin nowadays, we read and write it. Accurately.
Latin uses the same word for 'house' and 'home '- domus [ancestor of words like domestic]
magic is usually 'ars magica' the magic art. That's the nominative case, so to say 'of magic' you need the genitive 'artis magicae' [ars is a feminine noun]
domus artis magicae
Source(s): education - Anonymous8 years ago
Indeed no mechanical translator can be reliable! Sorry, can't remember enough Latin for the 'magic' part. But take note that Latin inscriptions were always in capitals - lower case did not exist in Roman times, and that what we write as "U" is always "V" in Latin, though pronounced as we pronounce "U". (House is 'DOMVS', whence the English word 'domestic'.)