what does deus servo mihi mean
what does deus servo mihi mean?
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It's Latin, which I haven't looked at since high school.
God serves me.
God is deus in Latin? Then what is Deo? Gloria in excelsis Deo means "Glory to God in the Highest"- right?
In Latin, nouns are declined. When Deus is used as a singular subject or possesive it is Deus (both the nominative and vocative case of the noun).
When you say "to/for or from/with God" (the dative or ablative singular case), then God is Deo. The dative case is used to indicate to whom something is given - Glory to God - while the ablative case is used to indicate movement away from something - from God, or away from God.
So the full declension of Dues, dei is:
Deus, deus, deum, dei, deo, deo
Di or dei, di or dei, deos, deorum or deum, dis or deis, dis or deis.
"Deus ex machina!" - prepositions are used in Latin, as in this example (machina in the ablative case, I think), but are not necessary much of the time, as many functions of the preposition are performed by the case of the noun.
This makes Latin both more complicated and simpler than a non-declined language, like modern Spanish or English. More complicated because there is more to memorize, but simpler because the language can be used with more precision.
Modern German declines its nouns, as does ancient Greek and Sanskrit. I am not sure about modern Greek, but I imagine it is so.
Techinically, having both a singular and a plural form of a noun is a declension of the noun. This is all we have in modern Spanish and modern English.
God is deus in Latin?
Then what is Deo?
Gloria in excelsis Deo means "Glory to God in the Highest"- right?
Google Translate identified that as French, but I don't think that's French.
We don't know. That's not Spanish.
