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What is "The First" and "Capital" in Latin?
When I mean by "The First" I meant something like "The First City"
and I mean "Capital" as "Capital City"
2 Answers
- Anonymous7 years agoFavorite Answer
"Primus" = 'first' as an adjective. Note, of course, that it 'declines' (changes its endings) according to gender (of noun described) and grammatical case. Thus the 'us'at the end might be 'a' or 'e' or 'orum' or several others.
The concept of 'capital city' was not generally around in Roman times. Rome was the top city, from which all power stemmed (though not always in practice!). Thus there was no need to describe Rome in terms of 'capital city' - Rome simply was Rome, no other important place existed!
The word 'capital' comes from the Latin 'caput' = head.
- Erik Van ThienenLv 77 years ago
What John said. You can also translate 'capital city' by 'caput', 'urbs caput', ' urbs capitalis' or 'suprema civitatis urbs'.
Source(s): http://la.wikipedia.org/
