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God bless America

15:43 Nov 22, 2010
English to Latin translations [PRO]
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English term or phrase: God bless America
could you please provide me with the translation of "God bless america" as well as the phonitic writing of it in latin letters.
thank you
babajaddi
Local time: 19:54


Summary of answers provided
5 -1Utinam Deus beet Americam/Utinam Deus fortunet Americam
Joseph Brazauskas
5 -1Deus benedicat Americam
Luis Antonio de Larrauri


  

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25 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
god bless america
Utinam Deus beet Americam/Utinam Deus fortunet Americam


Explanation:
The subjunctives 'beet' and 'fortunet' are hortatory. 'Ut' may be used instead of 'utinam' in poetry.

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Note added at 25 days (2010-12-18 06:40:38 GMT)
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The approximate pronunciation of these sentences, using the Restored pronunciation, is OO-tih-nahm DEH-oos BEH-eht ah-MEH-rih-kahm and OO-tih-nahm DEH-oos fawr-TOO-neht ah-MEH-rih-kahm resoectively. The Ecclesiastical pronunciations would be OO-tee-nahm DAY-oos BAY-eht ah-MAY-ree-kahm and OO-tee-nahm DAY-oos fawr-TOO-neht ah-MAY-ree-kahm respectively.

Joseph Brazauskas
United States
Local time: 13:54
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 84

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Luis Antonio de Larrauri: 'Bear' is rather 'make happy' or 'enrich'. Fortunare? good approach from classical Latin, but not so accurate as 'bened.' Besides, your choice of words force you to complicate syntax needlessly: is much more straightforward 'Deus benedicat...
2 days 3 hrs
  -> 'Beare' does mean 'make happy' but it also means 'bless'. It means 'enrich' only when used with an instrumental ablative. I prefer to "complicate syntax needlessly" than to use a rare construction. And optative subjvs. without 'utinam' are very rare
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
god bless america
Deus benedicat Americam


Explanation:
This is build following the structure of phrases such as:

Benedicat nos Deus
Deus benedicat te: (God bless you)

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Note added at 19 hrs (2010-11-23 11:33:20 GMT)
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This could be the pronuntiation:
Deh-oos beh-neh-dee-kaht Ah-meh-ree-kahm

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Note added at 27 days (2010-12-20 09:58:50 GMT)
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Here there is an identical question that was previously asked. The only difference is that they chose imperative instead of subjunctive for the translation:

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/109023

Luis Antonio de Larrauri
Local time: 19:54
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Joseph Brazauskas: 'Benedicere' means 'to speak well of, to praise', not 'to bless' in classical Latin./The asker wanted a translation of 'God bless America', not 'God speak well of America' or 'God praise America'. In the Vulgate 'benedico' renders Hebrew 'praise, adore'.
24 days
  -> Since we are talking of one God, it makes more sense to use the Christian time-honored Latin word 'benedicere', which in addition is closer to the actual sense of bless.
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