english to latin?

Question

What the translation for "rest in peace my friend" in latin

Answer 1

requiescas in pace, amice mee

That is if your friend is a man.

If your friend is a woman:

requiescas in pace, amica mea

Answer 2

Blaargh 42 is correct - I consulted a grammar to make sure, but the adjective must agree with the noun in gender, number, AND case. Vocatives are not that common in Latin, and vocatives with adjectives are even rarer. But they do occur, and they are declined just like the noun they are modifying. It just looks funny to see mee, with a double e like that, as Latin does not have that as a regular vowel combination.

It only happens in the vocative of the second declension, where the vocative termination "e" is added on to a word stem that ends with an e. I read somewhere that the correct vocative of Deus is Dee, but the word does not appear anywhere in the vocative in any known Latin text. Domine is common, however. Probably even native Latin speakers did not like the double e ending.

Answer 3

The "my friend" part is causing difficulties among the suggestions.
The vocative of "meus" can either be "mi" or "meus". The Romans certainly wouldn't have liked "mee" and they never used that form.
In addressing someone, "o" can be added too. There are instances of putting "mi" before the noun (even with a feminine word), so we can have the following...

"Requiescas in pace, o mi amice." (or o mi amica.)

Answer 4

I would agree with Blaargh, except that I was taught that adjectives have no vocative form, so in the male version, it should be "amice meus"

Answer 5

babelfish, while one of my fav. translators does not have an English to Latin translation. They have English to Greek, but not to Latin.

This is what I found, I don't know if it's completely correct.

sileo in pacis meus amicus

Answer 6

http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
go here & type it in