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Anybody want to help me with Latin?

Do you use the nominative case when you’re referring to the thing itself as the subject?

And what do you do with the adjective?

Like eternal peace would be pāx aeternus? Or pāx aeternum?

I know zero Latin grammar so bear with me.

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Yes, the nominative is the "reference" case of the noun. The adjective will match the noun it modifies in case, number, and gender.

pāx aeterna

since pāx is feminine

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@MalteseFalconPunch cāritās is also feminine 😁

But for masculine, this adjective (and all adjectives of the us-a-um form, the 1st/2nd declension adjectives) would be aeternus and neuter aeternum.

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@MalteseFalconPunch Yep. 👍

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@MalteseFalconPunch I feel like even poets adhered to this fairly stringently. It's the word order that they played around with, but nominal agreement seems to be a priority.

But no that's grammatically correct: sōl is the Latin word for sun and it is masculine, so invictus is also masculine. (The Greek word for sun is ἥλῐος - hélios)

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@MalteseFalconPunch All good. 😁 I minored in Latin so I might as well put it to use.

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@MalteseFalconPunch I can try and help. :)

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SW-User

@MalteseFalconPunch I think it would be /sɔl/, which is more like the "o" in "sore".

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@MalteseFalconPunch The difference is pretty subtle. I don't think using the "o" in "solar" would sound wrong.

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