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LATIN REQUEST: I need a spell that Dumbledore uses to summon the Sorting Hat. So far, Google Translate on "Attend, Sorter!" got me "Adtendite Ordinarium!" but I'll take other appropriate phrases if they've got better translations.
Premise: I've studied latin for about 5 years, so I'm not going to use gTranslate for Latin :)
my dictionary sounds better for this scope.
* Verb:
The verb prodeo [pro-eo] is the best I could think.
* the particle pro- means something like in front of, even between (me) and something, or near (me): this last one is peculiar and happens only sometimes.
* eo is the most common and even one of the ancient verbs (that's why is defective/irregular) that means simply go.
So when Cicero (Br. 39) said :
[...]
he probably meant something like
come out from dark in the light.
Other times is used, like in Caesar (Bg):
[...]
that should sound like
come out and go to the battle.
OT:
(If you need for other occasion for a "incantation" in a more militar situation , a good one could be subject in ablative case+ proelium proditu (prò-e-li-um prò-di-tu), but that's another topic :) )
Even flowers prodent and in a figurative way, even
[...]
(Apuleio)
tears of joy appeared/came out of (him)
but this sense doesn't matter that much for our problem, i guess.
* Subject:
Since you don't use "Hat" for the Sorting Hat, but it seems to me that you want to stress the fact that this "entity" is that important because is a Sorter I would guess
Deligitor
would be the best.
Also Eligitor would be nice there is a subtle difference: the last one means "the one who choose what he prefears". Deligo[de-lego -> de-eligo] means choose what (or who) is more apt to a peculiar aim.
A Cicero's quote:
[...]
meant something like
choosen among the cives/citizens to form the senate(to be senators)
Deligitor is the noun formed by the verb, means "who choose, who looks for the fittest men (or stuff) for a task and choose them for that task"
* The spell: JKR spells are really more naive, but that's not the point: they are not meant to be real Latin, but they are meant to sound like "Ancient powerful spell with complicated and forgotten words", imho.
* The best grammatical look
16HonoreDB
Pervenit Judex translates to "Here Comes the Judge".
(The HPMOR discussion thread after this one is here.)
This is a new thread to discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and anything related to it. There haven't been any chapters recently, but it looks like there are a bunch in the pipeline and the old thread is nearing 700 comments. The latest chapter as of 7th March 2012 is Ch. 77.
There is now a site dedicated to the story at hpmor.com, which is now the place to go to find the authors notes and all sorts of other goodies. AdeleneDawner has kept an archive of Author's Notes.
The first 5 discussion threads are on the main page under the harry_potter tag. Threads 6 and on (including this one) are in the discussion section using its separate tag system. Also: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
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