Latin help totally unrelated to church music
  • CindyCeciliaCindyCecilia
    Posts: 65
    Okay - an odd request I know. I am working on a project and I need to have a descriptive phrase in Latin that would roughly translate in English to "the twins (female) play" - is geminae ludare anything close to what I want?
  • mrcoppermrcopper
    Posts: 653
    There are certainly better latin scholars than me I (Edit: and better English scholars) here, but at least I'd say you need the plural ending for the verb: ludunt (not sure that ludere is the only choice for play ... probably not).
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  • Ambrosius
    Posts: 49
    Yes, 'geminae ludunt' or pehaps 'gemellae ludunt' or, perhaps better, 'ludunt gemellae'.

    ('ludere' is the verb to play (games etc.) if you mean 'play' in sense of playing an instrument, then you'd need something like the verb 'canere' and say 'geminae canunt' or 'canunt gemellae' or similar)
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  • CindyCeciliaCindyCecilia
    Posts: 65
    Thank you! We need a play on the words (ha) - the word "play"- so we will go with the plural verb ludunt. Thank you so much!
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