could you please tell me what this means please i dont know what the language is. tandem abute patientia
2006-10-21 11:35:22 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
sorry, no idea but it looks Spanish or Italian to me
2006-10-21 11:37:55 · answer #1 · answered by Suz 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's Latin.
You probably refer to a very famous quote from Cicero, the full sentence being:
Quo usque tandem abutere patientia nostra?
meaning: How long must you abuse our patience?
said to Catilina, when he entered the Roman Senate. Cicero was talking about Catilina's thwarted plot to kill him and overthrow the Senate.
2006-10-21 18:46:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
It's definitely Latin!
Tandem - at length!
yes I remember, Sunday nights learning Latin vocab for the test on Monday, I was racking my brains there trying to remember it, tandem is definitely at length!!
2006-10-23 16:49:56 · answer #3 · answered by used to live in Wales 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tandem - at last, finally.
Abute - to use abusive language, to make full use of, use a word incorrectly, to abuse
Patientia - patience, suffering, endurance
Could also mean "at length to use abusive language patience."
Why the thumbs down? I tried my best hehe
2006-10-21 18:39:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You got me.. It is not Italian/Spanish/Portuguese and none of the languages of germanic origin
2006-10-21 22:28:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Latin.
More importantly, here is one of the best translators on the web. At least, it's the best one that I found.
http://babel.altavista.com/tr?
2006-10-24 22:50:08 · answer #6 · answered by Annie Answers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I don't know what that means but in german tandom abutt patientia means fishing on a boat
2006-10-21 18:38:20 · answer #7 · answered by Geek Burger 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Latin "at length to use abusive language patience"
2006-10-21 18:56:04 · answer #8 · answered by Tink 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sorry I'm bi lingual in Dutch and that's not Dutch (even the double kind)
2006-10-24 14:26:13 · answer #9 · answered by kimbridge 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Latin. You didn't give the full quote from Cicero but it means How long will you abuse our patience?
2006-10-21 18:41:15 · answer #10 · answered by MGN2006 4 · 7⤊ 1⤋