No, I don’t want a Mexican passport, I want to know how to say “passport” in Latin. I understand it will probably be a fake Latin word since the ancient Romans didn’t use passports (as far as I know) but maybe there’s something close.
On a side note, does the Vatican issue passports? And if so, what’s written on them?
“Passaporte”
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Not directly relevant, but saying “Civis Romanus sum” was generally all that was required in Roman times (q.v. St. Paul).
Veni, vidi, vici.
(I came, I saw, I dropped a little money on the roulette table and came home.)
Pasaporte, one S.
mine is special, it is called El pa-Sapo-rte.
Link regarding Vatican passports.
Unless you specifically went to Vegas. Then it’s veni, v.d., vici.
But there was such a thing as… “diplomatic passports.”
While passports themselves are a modern invention (ID in general are), people would have items identifying them as envoys and allowing them to walk into enemy lands to negotiate, or to be received and supplied with whatever they needed by ambassadors. This existed in Roman times - there must have been a word for it.
My guess would be “passaportus”. The “port” in “passport” comes ultimately from the Latin “portus”, meaning port or harbour; the Italian for “passport” is “passaporto”.
Please ignore this buffoon. He has no idea what he is talking about.
Interesting, I wasn’t aware that the Pope even had[ a passport :o . I assumed that as a sovereign head of state he, like Queen Elizabeth II, didn’t need one.
Not only does he have one, he allegedly sometimes forgets it.
http://www.pr-inside.com/report-pope-traveled-to-brazil-without-r139156.htm
Hijack: How do you say, in Latin,
“My voice is my passport. Verify Me.”