How do you say "the body never forgets"
in Latin?
2007-11-11 15:43:37 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I use the phrase in the Freudian sense. For example, I may supress certain memories and in time, "forget
certain things ever happened/existed but "the body never forgets"
2007-11-12 15:33:22 · update #1
Corpus nunquam obliviscitur
(or "numquam")
about martox's answer:
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"obliviscor" means "to forget"
"dedisco" particularly means "to unlearn", "to forget how to"
("de-" = "un-" + "disco"= "to learn")
After Jasmine explanation:
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If the sense of sentence is "the body never forgets -for example- traumatic events", I would then translate "obliviscitur" (the more common word for "to forget")
2007-11-11 16:02:18 · answer #1 · answered by Guillermo 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Obliviscor versus dedisco
Obliviscor is the general and most often used word for 'forget' and dedisco is more 'forget how to'. Even then, dedisco is occasionally used where you might expect obliviscor: Nomen disciplinamque P. R. dediscere = To forget the name and discipline of the Roman People; Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, 1, 14.
However, in this case, dediscere should be the first choice anyway. The apparent meaning of the phrase is that the body (the muscle system and the conscious and subconscious control of the body) does not 'forget' what it has been trained to do - riding a bicycle, hitting a golf ball, operating a machine, using a typewriter, etc. For this the 'forget how to' is the correct choice.
English does not give you the option, but Latin does.
ADDED: After note added to the question and new answer: Dedesciere still seems the better choice - moe toward the 'unlearn' than the 'forget how to'.
Obliviscor does take the genitive, esp. of people; it takes the accusative of things. However, if there is no object specified, there's surely no reason to dream one up.
2007-11-12 15:58:02 · answer #2 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Corpus numquam dediscit
2007-11-12 03:41:54 · answer #3 · answered by martox45 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
corpus numquam quiscuius obliviscitur
'oblivisci' (takes a genitive), literally: to be forgetful of.
2007-11-13 20:28:35 · answer #4 · answered by aristotle_inabottle 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
el cuerpo nunca olvida
2007-11-12 01:13:35 · answer #5 · answered by lobo 2 · 0⤊ 6⤋
Puto vos esse molestissimos.
2007-11-11 23:51:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋