This is a motto on a coat of arms recently dicovered doing my family tree. Does anyone know what it means.
2006-12-10 10:53:41 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
That is from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Roughly translated, it means:
He himself is unmindful/heedless of his own.
immemor - unmindful , forgetful, heedless
ipse - oneself (emphatic)
sui genitive his, hers, its own (as a noun, one's own people, property, etc.)
Perhaps the crest means that someone is unmindful of their own safety in protecting others? Taken out of the original context, it could mean different things, but that sounds logical to me.
2006-12-11 09:09:17 · answer #1 · answered by Jeannie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IN HIS MEMORY
That should be what it means, but I would go to a school site that has Latin classes, and ask around there.
2006-12-10 14:00:50 · answer #2 · answered by veroanique 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Latin is quite rusty... but I am guessing it means "Unforgetting of itself" implying that your family does not forget its own.
2006-12-10 11:23:27 · answer #3 · answered by archangel2923 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to google translate
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itsy
2006-12-10 11:02:24 · answer #4 · answered by itsybitsykity 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋