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2007-09-30 17:44:34 · 5 answers · asked by Smokey Eyes 2 in Society & Culture Languages

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MORS NOCTURNI PAPILIONIS or
NOCTURNI PAPILIONIS MORS

EDIT
Above answer comes from an on line translator (of and butterfly are not latin words ..!!)
Below suggested :
Tinia is not the night butterfly , but it's the harvest bug (or mite)
Blatta is the black cockroach.

In Latin there is only one word translating butterfly and that's
papilio-papilionis.
Don't take wrong ways..!!

2007-09-30 17:56:01 · answer #1 · answered by martox45 7 · 0 1

Mors blattae = death of the moth

Blatta was used for moth.

Vestis blattarum et tinearum epulae = clothes, food for moths and worms. Horatius Flaccus, Satirae

ADDED: Papilio is the Latin word for butterfly - but a Roman would never use the term 'night butterfly'. They had a word they used for all insects that shun the light - the night insects. That word was 'blatta'. For example, it was used by Pliny for 'moth', and was also used by Horatius in the quote above, and the Smith and Hall dictionary gives moth = blatta and blattis peresus = moth-eaten. The C. T. Lewis dictionary gives the definition 'an insect that shuns the light, such as moths, cockroaches, and chamfers.'

2007-10-01 10:38:48 · answer #2 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 1 1

nex of matris-- Death of the Moth
nex of nox noctis butterfly----Death of Night Butterfly

2007-10-01 00:49:29 · answer #3 · answered by fl_grkgrl 4 · 0 3

Tiniae mors.

2007-10-01 04:56:03 · answer #4 · answered by JJ 7 · 0 1

Not sure but death is morte.

2007-10-01 07:51:16 · answer #5 · answered by Marilyn T 7 · 0 2

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