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What is "Wings of Death" translated into Latin?
I used Google Translate and got "et alas mortis".
I do not know Latin (wish I did), so can anyone confirm or give me the correct translation?
All help is very appreciated.
3 Answers
- Newms34Lv 67 years agoFavorite Answer
Sorry, but Kelsey is wrong. Death in Latin is Mors or Letum (not lethum). I have no idea why you'd use the genitive plural of 'scapula' (and the WRONG genitive too: it's a 1st declension word, not a 2nd declension), or why you'd use the Latin word which means 'shoulder'. I also have no idea why you'd use the Hebrew term for the angel of death, when Latin has perfectly serviceable words meaning "death".
Her translations very roughly say "Azrael of the shoulders" or "Lethum (which is NOT a Latin word) of the shoulders".
Your proper translation is probably going to want to use the word 'alae' meaning 'wings' (nominative plural), and 'mortis' meaning 'of death'. The word 'mors', from whence we get 'mortis', can also mean death personified. We get the Harry Potter spell "morsmodre" from two words: Mors from Latin meaning Death, and 'mordre' from a French verb, ultimately from Latin "mordere", meaning to eat.
SO:
Alae mortis.
For your information:
'Alas' is what's know as the ACCUSATIVE, or object case. It's what you'd use if the phrase 'wings of death' was the object of a verb. For example, "Bob saw the wings of death".
'Et' just means 'and'. Not sure why that's included here, but you definitely don't need it.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Wings is scapula, scapulae N.
Death as in the angel or death is Azrael
Death personified is Lethum, Lethi
The wings of death would br scapulorum Azrael or scapulorum Lethum
trust me, Latin is way harder than you would think