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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Latin - help - please? #107890 07/18/2003 1:47 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA wow Carpal Tunnel wow Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA Many years ago my dentist had a sign - in Latin - posted in his office. Summa Ars Est Celare Artem which he translated as "The Greatest Art Is The Hidden Art" Very appropriate, I thought, for a dentist. Now, has my memory recalled the spelling correctly? Any comments? Translation? Anything? Thank you. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Latin - help - please? #107891 07/18/2003 1:57 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Looks good. I might quibble about the translation, but that's just me. I'd go with: The greatest art is to hide the art. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Latin - help - please? #107892 07/18/2003 2:00 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA Could Celare be meant to be "caecum?" k Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Latin - help - please? #107893 07/18/2003 2:07 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park The NYC morgue (1st Avenue and 25th Street or so, squished between the Veterns Hosp, and the Bellevue Medical center) has a latin motto in the entry way, greeting people, i don't remember the latin, but the translation is Enter(welcome,) here, were death delights to teach the living. a good motto for a grim place. (One joy of my former employment as a Xerox tech, was, i got to go places i normally never would.. so i have been in the stacks of the 42nd street library, and in the morgue, and lots of other places, that are off the beaten path.) my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Latin - help - please? #107894 07/18/2003 2:11 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Definition of: ars est celare artem ars est celare artem: True art is to conceal art. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Latin - help - please? #107895 07/18/2003 3:27 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Look, all the above translations are pretty good, considering the difficulties involved. Not to hide one's light under one's bushel (or *however it's being translated nowadays), one refers you to http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=108918 ~ camel in my needle's eye Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Latin - help - please? #107896 07/19/2003 1:11 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky bushel ... being translated Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae. #107897 07/26/2003 5:27 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Taceant colloquia. Effugiat risus. Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae. (Let conversations cease. Let laughter depart. This is the place where death delights to help the living.) -- The Latin motto posted in the autopsy room of Dr. Milton Helpern, the medical examiner of New York City in the 1960's Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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