A Conversation for Handy Latin Phrases

Love some help please

Post 1

mlenardon3

I'd really like some help translating "Lost in Forever" please and thank you to anyone who responds..


Love some help please

Post 2

Banjo Golly

Strange to tell, Latin doesn't have a word for "lost" in the sense of "unable to find the way/not knowing where one is" that can be isolated and put in a slogan like "lost in forever". The idea has to be expressed using a verb, e.g. "deerravi"="I've gone astray [i.e. I am lost]"

There are words for "lost" in other senses, though. You could say "amissus in aeternitate" means "Lost in Forever". But amissus means having been lost by somebody, like a lost key, not having got lost oneself.

"Perditus in aeternitate" also means "Lost in Forever", but lost in the sense of "screwed" as in "O alas all is lost! We are totally screwed!"


Love some help please

Post 3

mlenardon3

Okay.. Mayhaps if i give you the gist of what i'm trying to get across you could help *you seem rather knowledgable*..

Lost as in, perhaps adrift.
Forever could even be eternity, or infinity.

Is there anyway to express that?..
A way to express not being able to find yourself in an infinite space?

I hope.. thanx.


Love some help please

Post 4

Banjo Golly

My dictionary recommends "fluctuans" for "adrift". It really means "being driven hither and thither" [from "fluctus"="a wave"] I don't know it that will do. Anyway it's:

"fluctuans in aeternitate"
(drifting in eternity)


Love some help please

Post 5

mlenardon3

Thank you kindly.. Totally appreciate the help.


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