In Latin, does the adjective come first?

Question

Is it Mors Tripudio (death dance) or Tripudio Mors (dance death) to correctly say Death Dance in latin?

Its for a novel.

Answer 1

As it stands, your phrase could mean "Death from dancing" rather than "Death Dance" (unless that is what you wanted it to mean!).

Other possibilities according to the meaning required are
Mortis tripudium - Dance of Death
Tripudium mortiferum - deadly dance

In answer to the adjective query..
In Latin prose, more often than not, adjectives are placed after the noun with which they agree. However when they denote size or quantity they come before the noun.

In poetry, the position of words generally is not subject to such rules.

Answer 2

No. Think of the name of the star signs, e.g. Ursa Minor means Smaller Bear.

But your example is actually not an adjective but a compound noun. It's Tripudium Mortis, literally "The Death's Dance". The genitive comes after the main noun, as in German.

Answer 3

In Latin poetry, placement was often dictated by meter....placing the words such that the scansion "worked" out

For instance, The Aeneid is written in dactylic hexameter

for prose....other stylistic techniques could be used

for instance "chiasmus"

the same two words in one line would be reversed in the following line for added emphasis..

blah blah blah "red" "blood" blah blah blah
ibid ibid ibid "blood" "red" ibid ibid ibid


With some Latin authors....word placement has an added connotation...noun - adj...usual placement

but adj-noun a pejorative meaning to the words

a "man" "big" might mean a large man
but a "big" "man" might mean a pompous [big-headed] man


Nota bene: "tripudium" is a religious ceremonial dance
"saltatio" is a "normal" dance


Non sine spe hic audivat

Answer 4

It doesn't matter. Latin is a gendered language, meaning it has male, female and neutre nouns. But unlike other languages, the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs which apply to that noun are given the same gender. So you can put the words in any order you want and because they are linked by their gender-indicating suffixes, they will only mean one thing.

Answer 5

some nouns persist with, some in the front, it does no longer totally remember a lot. quite regularly, the adjective comes first. some authors have their own style. If the problem isn't expressed in a separate be conscious, furnish the pronoun that is going with the verb's ending. -o I, -s you singular, -t he/she/it, -mus we, -tis you plural, -nt they. Which words have the suffix -a? i'm no longer sparkling on that element of your question.

Answer 6

I think so.