# Quick -  Latin help!

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 29, 2007, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-latin-help/431559 "2007-12-29T02:54:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-latin-help/431559/1 "2007-12-29T02:54:04Z")

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For a late holiday present to my father, I’m looking for the best way to say “Survive, Recover, and Adapt,” in Latin. He needs a carved sign to hang over his door at work. The best I could come up with is “Exsisto validus, vigoratus, quod perceptum.”

I know that’s pretty awful, help me?

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**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-latin-help/431559/2 "2007-12-29T04:52:52Z")

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pervivas convalescas acommodesque – May you survive, recover and adapt

pervive convalesca acommodaque – Survive, recover & adapt (in the imperative mood)

There are other possibilities, but I’m going to the beach so I can’t work them out. 😃

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-latin-help/431559/3 "2007-12-29T04:57:12Z")

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The three imperative forms would be: supera, convalesce, accommoda.

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-latin-help/431559/4 "2007-12-29T08:00:27Z")

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Wow, and thank you.

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**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:** [December 29, 2007, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-latin-help/431559/5 "2007-12-29T09:27:04Z")

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Rememberthat you should go for the sense of the motto rather than a literal translation, so how about something more Caesaresque?

Vivere, Vincere, Esse. Literally: live, conquer, be.