# Latin tranlsation

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**Created:** [May 8, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-tranlsation/355826 "2006-05-08T00:55:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-tranlsation/355826/1 "2006-05-08T00:55:08Z")

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I’m looking to translate “Leave no stone unturned” into Latin. While I’m sure there are dopers who can help me in that regard, is there anything out there like a Babelfish for Latin (although, knowing Spanish, I know that the Babelfish produces marginally usable translations at best)?

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**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-tranlsation/355826/2 "2006-05-08T02:04:03Z")

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> [@Khan](#):
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> I’m looking to translate “Leave no stone unturned” into Latin. While I’m sure there are dopers who can help me in that regard, is there anything out there like a Babelfish for Latin (although, knowing Spanish, I know that the Babelfish produces marginally usable translations at best)?

Not much help but for what its worth…

leave licentia, excedo, discedo, egredior, dimitto  
no quinymo quinimmo, nullus, haud  
not xxx  
none xxx  
rock silex silicis (med. cilicis)  
turned xxx  
unturned xxx  
back rursus, tergum   
All from an English-Latin dictionary.

Try to locate a Latin Teacher, most likely at a Catholic H.S. I doubt many HS’s teach latin anymore.

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**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:** [May 8, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-tranlsation/355826/3 "2006-05-08T02:33:46Z")

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There’s [this site](http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=English&to=Latin), but I can’t seem to get it to work.

There is an attested Latin phrase, _omnem movere lapidem_, “turn every stone,” with the same meaning as the idiom in the OP

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-tranlsation/355826/4 "2006-05-08T03:18:05Z")

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You could try “Relinque nulla saxa nonversa.” Literally, “Abandon no stones not having been turned.”

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**Author:** ![CJJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@CJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CJJ)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-tranlsation/355826/5 "2006-05-08T15:17:03Z")

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The phrase you’re looking for is _Omnem movere lapidem_, attibuted (I believe) to Erasmus.