I know there are some dopers here who are well versed in Latin. Could somebody please tell me what “Est voluntas Dei” means, and how to pronounce it correctly?
Many thanks!
I wouldn’t call myself “well-versed”, as I haven’t taken Latin in 4 years, but before that I took it for 6. Your phrase means “It is the will of God.”
Pronunciation:
Est (rhymes with “best”) woe-loon-taas day-ee.
“It is the will [or wish] of God”
The pronunciation of est is just as you would expect.Dei is “dayee”. voluntas is “woluntas” in Classical Latin and “voluntas” in Medieval Latin.
The o and u of voluntas are short, the a is long: “woluntarse”
For “Est” I want to say “Eh”, being that I’vbe only seen that word in French. But for some reason when I see it in Latin, I want to say “est”, like “west” with no “w”.
Which would be right?
Oh, and thanks for the translation…I was afriad it was something to do with God.
Wow! Thanks for all the simul-posts, too!
est rhymes with “best”, as Fang said.
When I was at school and we were doing Julius Caesar in English class, some dumbass got to read out the famous line “Et tu Brute” and pronounced it “Eh tu broot?” How we mocked him.
You know, somebody really should adopt the username woluntarse.
Band name!
You’re both right. In french, “est” (third person “to be”) and “es” (second person) are pronounced with only the vowel making a sound.
In latin, the “s” and the “t” get to talk.