melissa_hewett Posted July 5, 2006 Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 Hi, Please could you translate: I have earned my wings or Earned my wings I have been told it is Mereo Meus Alis and Mereo Meus Pennae Many Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissa_hewett Posted July 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 to update i have now been told it is Mertius Meus Pennae Please still help and tell me if this is correct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLavius Valerius Constantinus Posted July 5, 2006 Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 (edited) Apparently its slow on the boards today, so I'll help you out. There is no such form as 'mertius.' What you want is the perfect tense using the supine form--> Meritus sum, but thats for male gender. Since you are a girl, its Merita sum. BY the way, mereo, mereri, meritus sum is deponent. Final answer: Pennam meam merita sum. For something simple, I might have stupid errors. So someone else may correct me. Edited July 5, 2006 by FLavius Valerius Constantinus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Valerius Scerio Posted July 5, 2006 Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 There is no such form as 'mertius.' What you want is the perfect tense using the supine form--> Meritus sum, but thats for male gender. Since you are a girl, its Merita sum. The supine is never nominative - only accusative and ablative. Correctly, it's the perfect passive participle. BY the way, mereo, mereri, meritus sum is deponent. Not quite. If it were mereo, mereri, meritus, then it'd be semi-deponent. However, I see two different entries for mereo - mereo, merere and mereor, mereri, most likely having both the deponent forms and regular forms. Also, meritus seems to be used both active, passive and middle tenses, which is quite a large difference. Did the wings earn, or did someone earn the wings? Chambers-Murray cites the middle tense for meritus as most frequent. Personally, I'd stick with perfect active: Pennas Merui, although Pennis Meritis sounds better, if you can get past the ambiguity. Final answer: Pennam meam merita sum. One wing only? For something simple, I might have stupid errors. So someone else may correct me. Who else? How odd - why did my quotes not work properly? [edit - PP... one too many /quote ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 (edited) I have been perturbatus by you guys, I thought the supine was only used to express purpose e.g. diximus hoc perturbatu : we said this in order to throw into confusion:( Edited August 8, 2006 by Quintus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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