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17 Mar 01 - 04:42 PM (#420065) Subject: Latin phrase needed From: Hollowfox After looking around at my three-year long (so far) session of spring cleaning, I decided that the name for my house should be "Work in Progress." Could some more Latin-literate folks suggest a translation, so it will sound a bit more classy? |
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17 Mar 01 - 04:52 PM (#420069) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: katlaughing Best I can figure from a really good online Latin dictionary would be something like Opus Progressus doesn't sound that much classier, does it? I am sure one of the other will come up with something else.:-) I like the idea, though! |
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17 Mar 01 - 04:53 PM (#420070) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Opus in transitio? "progredi, proficere" are the Latin for "progress". I can't remember how to conjugate well enough to help you with that.Maybe: Opus in proficium/o Somebody??? |
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17 Mar 01 - 05:57 PM (#420104) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: katlaughing Well, Animaterra, I think we've got opus down right, but this is what I found for progress...take yer pick**BG**..the progressus I used was male, which I assumed was right because opus ended in "us"...BUT it's been too many years for me to remember all of the conjugations and rules, too! Looks as though opus profectum might be more correct. Anyway, here ya go: proficio -ficere -feci -fectum: of persons [to make progress , advance]; of things, [to be of use, assist, help]. progressio -onis f. [advance , progress; increase]; rhet. [climax]. progressus -us m. [going forwards , advance, progress; increase]. |
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17 Mar 01 - 06:13 PM (#420113) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: Bill D that's at least a positive attitude...My workshop has a sign on the door saying: "Lasciate ogni speranza, Voi ché entrate" Dante, Inferno-Canto III, Line 10
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17 Mar 01 - 06:34 PM (#420119) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: Allan C. I can't help much with the actual Latin, but the English phrasing could be altered slightly in order to possibly render a more pleasing Latin translation. How about: effort unfinished incomplete event not yet finished happening |
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17 Mar 01 - 06:35 PM (#420120) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: Mark Cohen Before James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" was published, it was called "Work in Progress" for many years. A number of literary critics once published a collection of essays about the still-unfinished book, called, as I recall, "Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress." That's a good round Latinate phrase, though I admit it's a tad unwieldy for a sign on the door. Or, you might try "Imperfectus": literally, "unfinished". That sounds like it might resonate with your thought. (Of course, my most recent Latin course was in 1967 at Central High School in Philadelphia, so don't consider me the last word by any means.) Aloha (alohae, alohas, aloham, aloha), Mark |
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17 Mar 01 - 06:36 PM (#420121) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: Helen Opus is neuter/neutral(?) - what is the word for neither feminine or masculine - so adjectives end in -um unless of course you are using one of the other endings like "towards progress" etc etc. The plural of opus is opera, so maybe you can make a musical double-entendre, just for fun by calling it "works in Progress" instead. The works progress, the opera progresses?? Helen Rusty Latin-lover/ lover of rusty Latin / lover of rusty Latin lovers / lusty Latin rovers.......ad nauseum |
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17 Mar 01 - 06:55 PM (#420132) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: SINSULL Opus Neglegendum More to the point - NO? |
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17 Mar 01 - 06:55 PM (#420133) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: Nemesis Well, I always reckon where house cleaning, etc., is concerned that the expression "Tempus F**kit" comes to mind.
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17 Mar 01 - 07:20 PM (#420151) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: Helen Good one, Challis. I agree totally. Helen |
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17 Mar 01 - 08:40 PM (#420178) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: John Routledge Brutus aderat forti Ceasar adsum jam Brutus sic in omnibus Ceasar sic intram Anon |
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17 Mar 01 - 08:41 PM (#420179) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: Mark Cohen I always thought Brutus was one sic dude... |
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17 Mar 01 - 09:29 PM (#420200) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: catspaw49 OPUS NON PROGRESSUS; SCREWITIS That'd be it around here......... Spaw |
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17 Mar 01 - 09:56 PM (#420219) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: katlaughing AH! It's the "NON" we left out!! Yeah for Spaw!!! |
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17 Mar 01 - 10:38 PM (#420237) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: thosp id imperfectum manet dum confectum erit" peace (Y) thosp |
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18 Mar 01 - 05:13 AM (#420330) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: MudGuard Opus in progresso Opus progressum are the most literal translations that I can think of. But what about Opus progressum esse (ACI = Accusativ cum infinitiv) The work has to be progressed) MudGuard |
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18 Mar 01 - 08:28 AM (#420361) Subject: RE: Latin phrase needed From: Dani Our old house is being fixed up in bits and pieces, as slowly as we can live with, as quickly as we can do it ourselves. I've always loved South Carolina's state motto: "Dum Spiro, Spero", or, "While I Breathe, I Hope." Dani |
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