If I were to give a Latin phrase, could anyone generate that into Ancient Roman Latin font?

Question

I want to generate the phrase "ANTE OMNIS MEA FAMILIA" (which means My Family Before Everything) into the original ancient latin font that would be written in ancient scriptures. If anyone, with credibility, can help me out - it would be very much appreciated. I am willing to pay money as well. Thank you for looking at my question.

Answer 1

Any Helvetica will do if you use only capitals. Those are still the exact same form that the romans used, only they made do with fewer letters, e.g. no J, U, W.
Since one of the most common forms of correspondence were wooden tablets covered in wax, those letters were suited just as well to engraving in wax as to being chiseled in stone. Minuscules are an invention of the middle ages.

There is a convention in Latin that the most important part of a quote/sentence goes to the end, where the personal pronouns and adjectives are usually, but not always, behind the noun they describe.

So "ANTE OMNIA FAMILIA MEA" or "FAMILIA MEA ANTE OMNIA", whatever sounds better to you.

Answer 2

ANTE OMNIA FAMILIA MEA

You can't use the genitive 'omnis' since Ante is a preposition that agrees with the accusative. To express 'all the things, everything' the word 'omne' must be used at the plural and its plural accusative is 'omnia'.
The position of the possessive adjective 'mea' is merely optional but I prefer to postpone it to 'familia', it's simply sounding better to me...!!

Answer 3

Perhaps take a look at your phrase first. Ante is a preposition that tkes the accusative. The Latin word 'omne, omnis', in the plural, means: all things (pl.); everything; the whole. Accusative plural of 'omne' is 'omnia', so it would be:

Ante omnia mea familia.

Omnis is the genitive singular of 'omne'