My thesaurus has not been able in helping me find suitable sounding words, so I turn to foreign languages now. I am trying to create names by the way.

What is the Latin version of the following words? Much thanks to those who know and reply.

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• Naive</font>
• Innocent</font>
• Pure
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• Heart of Stone</font>
• Caged Heart</font>
• Relunctant Lover
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[ 04-30-2002, 04:39 AM: Message edited by: Dundee Slaytern ]

<font color="aqua">You know... all of those could describe Aerie in some way.</font>

Heh, I am preparing an all-mage party and I have all their names down pat except two of them, and they are supposed to be the main characters.

It is going to be a roleplay experience, and when I finish ironing out the details, I begin writing and playing the story.

It bugged me that I could not lower Gnomes' dexterity lower than 16... I wanted 8, he is supposed to be an old gnome for crying out loud!

it hasn't got anything to do with the fact that he's a gnome, but with the fact that he's a illusionist. illusionists must have 16 or more dex.

Hmm, not all english words have a similar latin version....
Im still in school, have had latin for 5 years now, but most of those words are very specific.
I do have a really big latin dictionary, but no english-latin one .. or any other language-latin one for that matter.
Internet dictionaries are too small to get accurate descriptions of those words.

The only one i know of the top of my head is Heart of stone:
Cor Lapis

( cor = subject-form of Hart / lapis = "of stone" )

I know innocent and pure exist in latin, but cant remember the words..
Sorry, but that's as far as my latin-knowledge stretches :(
( no very good at it ;)

[ 04-30-2002, 07:38 AM: Message edited by: daan ]

pure = purus
innocent = innocens
amans = not litteraly caged heart, but heart that is being possesed
naive: couldn't find
cor habetur= litteraly heart that is being possesed, so not caged heart, but that's the best i can do

And if someone can translate reluctant in dutch, i'd be happy to help on that one too, but i don't what that means, or maybe a brief description

Relunctant: Hesitant, loath to do something, not wanting to do something, etc... ...

Reluctant in dutch=onwillig,niet gaarne,met tegenzin etc

[ 05-02-2002, 02:03 AM: Message edited by: Campino ]

amans ??
Doesnt amans mean : while he's loving ?
(sorry, gotta go dutch-way here)

Toen hij liefhad / terwijl hij houdt van

Amans = Participium Praesens Actief ( ppa )
vertaald met "toen" of "terwijl"

Oh, en misschien kan je naief met goedgelovig vertalen ?
Ik weet redelijk zeker dat goedgelovig bestaat, alleen niet precies het latijnse woord ...

Sorry 'bout the dutch :rolleyes:

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Sorry to be annoying, but annother suggestion for innocent :

In-nocens is innocent as in " an innocent boy"

Innocentia is innocens ( the english innocens)

in-nocuus is a more poetic word to describe:
" (1. innocent/ 2. righteous, honest)"

And, doesnt cor habetur mean " (het/een) hart wordt (vast)gehouden", niet " hart, dat wordt (vast)gehouden " ?
Volgens mij heb je een PPP ( participium praesens passivum) nodig :
Cor habitus est ( hart dat wordt vastgehouden / hart, nadat het werd vastgehouden )

But now that i think about it, no person is gonna call himself
Cor habitus est ... so stick with cor habitur anywayz :D

Sorry for being a smart-ass, but i have a latin-test soon, and this is a great way to practice ;)