2007-07-29 17:33:34 · 3 answers · asked by amz j 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
'Aurera' is indeed golden; 'serenitas' in classical Latin is 'fine weather, favorable conditions'. As a guess, the jug was used for a liquid for consumption that was golden in color and 80+ proof, meant to be poured over ice cubes.
2007-07-30 12:44:23 · answer #1 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aurea is gold or golden or some form of gold. (aurum is gold and aureus or aureum is golden) and I am pretty sure that serenitas is tranquility. At first, I thought it might be some play on words about silence being golden, but 'silence is golden' in latin is 'silentium est aureum.'
I know this doesn't give you any certainty, but depending on the type of jug that it is you might be able to figure out what the phrasing is hinting at. Good Luck!
2007-07-30 05:58:17 · answer #2 · answered by Dawn E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is Latin.
Aureus as a noun, means 'golden', and this is the word we have here.
For example, in the famous expression which we translate as "the golden mean", aurea mediocritas, or or in another famous expression, aetas aurea, which means " the golden age".
Aurea serenitas would translate directly as "the golden tranquillity", which in our English idiom becomes paraphrased as "silence is golden". These idiomatic phrases seldom translate well directly.
2007-07-30 11:39:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋