What is "Rest in Peace" in Latin?

Question

Please translate as if it were on a gravestone. Thank you.

Answer 1

Requiescat in pace (literally, may he rest in peace)

Requiem is an English word based off of the Latin "requies"

There were 893 websites that came up when I searched for Requiem in pace. There were 256,000 that came up for Requiescat in pace. You do the math. The verb is used thousands of times more often, not the accusative case of the noun. The sites that did have it spelled requiem were not written in Latin (so it was not taken from a Latin source).

Here's a virtual graveyard (Italian website) with the preferred spelling:
http://www.requiescatinpace.it/

The word "requiem" is probably misused because of the Catholic Mass of the Dead, the Requiem mass, and Italy is predominantly Catholic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem

Answer 2

Jeannie's right. It's "requiescat in pace". Or, as you might know it, RIP. Romans often abbreviated formulaic language, especially in inscriptions (hell, learning to read some of those ancient tombstones is a task all by itself).

Though that doesn't mean that requiem in pace can't be a variant. Formulaic Latin often leaves out words that everybody understood would be there, and since no Romans are around anymore, it often doesn't make a lot of sense at first glance. Though you'd need to check on that particular variant.

Answer 3

Requiem in Pace. I'm an ancient history major with a minor in Latin (3rd year)

Yeah, I just read what this "Jeannie" chick put down, and just to let you know, "Requiem in Pace" is written on hundreds of graves in Rome and Florence, where I have studied.

Answer 4

requiescas in pace!

ciao...john-john.-