# Latin Translation Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 3, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136 "2002-12-03T03:10:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/1 "2002-12-03T03:10:27Z")
So I’m looking at Airman’s squadron coin, and his squadron motto is “Ubi concordia, ibi victoria.” Suffice it to say, my high school Latin is sorely inadequate. What does this mean? Robin ---
**Author:** ![agroof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@agroof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agroof)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/2 "2002-12-03T03:13:03Z")
“Where there is unity, there is victory.” ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/3 "2002-12-03T03:13:25Z")
Stick together and be victorious? Just a WAG because I don’t know any Latin at all to speak of. ---
**Author:** ![myheadphones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@myheadphones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myheadphones)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/4 "2002-12-03T03:15:20Z")
well, i only had two years of high school latin, but i think it’s something like “where there is [something something, perhaps conquest], then there is victory”. kind of a half-assed translation, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/5 "2002-12-03T03:17:02Z")
GRRRR! Why is agroof’s 09:13 post ahead of my 09:13 post. Looks like age discrimination to me, so watch it! ---
**Author:** ![agroof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@agroof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agroof)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/6 "2002-12-03T04:12:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by David Simmons \* > \*\*GRRRR! Why is agroof’s 09:13 post ahead of my 09:13 post. Looks like age discrimination to me, so watch it! \*\* No, it’s time zone discrimination. Fortune favors the East Coast. 😉 EST is even a Latin word itself. So there. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/7 "2002-12-03T06:10:01Z")
Est: “he is” (or “she is” or “it is”) Third person singular, present active indicative form of the verb “sum” (infinitive “esse”) which means “to be” Hey, I was to late to get to the OP. I wanted to translate SOMETHING. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/8 "2002-12-03T06:11:43Z")
I mean TOO late, not TO late. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/9 "2002-12-03T13:26:01Z")
This is actually quite a common motto in one for or another - the motto for Arsenal Football Club is, for example: “Victoria Concordia Crescit” Which means essentially the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![mrcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@mrcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrcrow)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/10 "2002-12-03T13:51:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by agroof \* > \*\*No, it’s time zone discrimination. Fortune favors the East Coast. 😉 > > EST is even a Latin word itself. So there. \*\* sum es est? ---
**Author:** ![mrcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@mrcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrcrow)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/11 "2002-12-03T13:53:16Z")
sumus estes sunt? ---
**Author:** ![Jerevan\_Somerville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@Jerevan\_Somerville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerevan_Somerville)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/12 "2002-12-03T15:05:02Z")
Rosa rosa rosa est est. ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/13 "2002-12-03T15:07:26Z")
Terminus est. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/14 "2002-12-03T15:19:49Z")
Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/15 "2002-12-03T15:31:50Z")
Ille dependet ex quam definiteone te “est” est. ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/16 "2002-12-03T15:34:44Z")
Nullus dolor est, quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat. ---
**Author:** ![Jerevan\_Somerville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@Jerevan\_Somerville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerevan_Somerville)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/17 "2002-12-03T15:36:30Z")
**Diogenes** : _lol_-am! Gallia in tres partes omnis divisa est. – Gaius Julius Caesar Et partes est partes. – Wendy’s ---
**Author:** ![mrcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@mrcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrcrow)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/18 "2002-12-03T15:42:02Z")
festina lente:) ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/19 "2002-12-03T16:00:26Z")
Ay carumba! ---
**Author:** ![mrcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@mrcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrcrow)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-question/140136/20 "2002-12-03T16:03:36Z")
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