I looked it up on a latin site and it said it meant "The glory of son's is their father's" and I really want to get it as a tattoo but I want to make sure that's really what it means.
2007-02-09 05:02:27 · 6 answers · asked by miraballer25 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Actually, both "filiorum" and "patres" are plural, so the translation is "The glory of the sons are their fathers". "The glory of the son is his father" would be "Filii pater". And "Glorium" should be "Gloriam", because it's a feminine noun as opposed to a masculine or neuter noun. It's possible that there's a variation on the traditional feminine "gloria", but I've never seen it. And actually, I'd go with "Gloria" because it's in the nominative, as opposed to the accusative, case.
Because my explanation is probably confusing:
"Gloria filiorum patres" -- "The glory of the sons are their fathers." OR "Gloriae filiorum patres" -- "The glories of the sons are their fathers" I think makes more sense.
"Gloria filii pater" -- "The glory of the son is his father."
2007-02-09 13:26:40 · answer #1 · answered by BrianaJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can't be like it's posted. In the Latin is not existing "glorium".
Besides of that one of well known Latin mottos reads
" Gloria filiorum patres" and I guess this is how it's written.
This sentence is corresponding in English to " The glory of sons is their fathers".
Edit #1 - By checking better I've found a link confirming my answer. In fact the verb is "is" and not "are" being referred to a singular noun "glory".
http://www.yuni.com/library/latin_2.html
2007-02-09 23:00:23 · answer #2 · answered by martox45 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Proverbs 17:6. Children's children are the crown of old men: and the glory of children are their fathers.
Corona senum filii filiorum et gloria filiorum patres sui
"Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of sons is their fathers"
et gloria filiorum patres eorum
I think that your "Glorium" is incorrect.
2007-02-09 06:35:19 · answer #3 · answered by cruisingyeti 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes - that's about it. Filius is son, and Patris is father. The endings are just grammatical indications of how the word is used, Latin being an inflected language.
2007-02-09 05:16:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What u said is true..!! It really means the same. I too looked in some of the dictionaries n reference thesauri online..!!
2007-02-09 05:16:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup........
2007-02-09 05:06:02 · answer #6 · answered by troble # one? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋