# Latin (and Cornish) Translatio help **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 25, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-and-cornish-translatio-help/457740 "2008-07-25T15:40:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oswald\_Bastable](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oswald_bastable/32/214_2.png) [@Oswald\_Bastable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oswald_Bastable)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-and-cornish-translatio-help/457740/1 "2008-07-25T15:40:28Z")
Hello and thank you kindly for reading this post… I know there are some Latin scholars on this board, so I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to help me in coming up with a realistic Latin translation of the following phrase: _Through Age (or Time) Flower_ I’m also looking for a similar phrase in Cornish, but think my luck may be out there… Many thanks OB ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-and-cornish-translatio-help/457740/2 "2008-07-25T15:45:25Z")
My suggestion for the Latin one would be _Flore per tempora_ or, if you want to stress the time span and give it a feeling of eternity, _Flore per saecula_. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-and-cornish-translatio-help/457740/3 "2008-07-25T16:20:51Z")
Is Flower a verb or a noun? If the former, you’ll want _Floreat per saecula_. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-and-cornish-translatio-help/457740/4 "2008-07-25T18:00:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Through Age (or Time) Flower Latin, hell. Translate it into English first. ---
**Author:** ![Oswald\_Bastable](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oswald_bastable/32/214_2.png) [@Oswald\_Bastable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oswald_Bastable)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-and-cornish-translatio-help/457740/5 "2008-07-25T21:03:13Z")
[QUOTE=bibliophage] Latin, hell. Translate it into English first. [/QUOTE] Sorry - didn’t mean to be so esoteric. I meant something along the lines of ‘to bloom with age’ (or more precisely ‘through the ages’ - Schnitte was correct in assuming I wanted to suggest eternity) - if that makes any more sense… OB ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-and-cornish-translatio-help/457740/6 "2008-07-25T21:40:02Z")
Semper floreat (Which is the name of the student newspaper at the University of Quensland – [http://www.semper.uq.edu.au/](http://www.semper.uq.edu.au/) ) ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-and-cornish-translatio-help/457740/7 "2008-07-26T09:23:34Z")
_Floreat_ would be the third person singular (“it may flower”). If you want the second person, it needs to be _flore_ or _floreas_. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-and-cornish-translatio-help/457740/8 "2008-07-26T15:56:32Z")
Cornish (Kemmyn): I’ll suggest _bleujyowa der an blydhynyow_, “blooming (verb-noun) + through + the + years.” You could substitute _oesow_ “ages” if you like. I think you might be able to say _byttydh bleujyowa_ (ever-blooming), but I’m less sure about the syntax. I’ll refer you [here](http://www.omniglot.com/writing/cornish.htm) for pronunciation.