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Latin curses (swear words)!!
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:11 am    Post subject: Latin curses (swear words)!! Reply with quote
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If anyone knows any Latin curses or anything along those lines could you let me know... I am lost when it comes to latin!

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ahem, what sort? You could always invoke the name of a god, Venus, Jupiter, Vulcan, Juno, etc.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The cursewords that would have been used in Latin would have been colloquial and therefore not likely to have been written down. The language that passed through the ages was a formal one, passed on by monks, so it is not likely that these colloquialisms remain. I study Latin and as far as I know there are only rude words and no known swear words.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The words don't have to mean anything to us, just something a Roman may have said when he subbed his toe for example! Smile

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
"Euge!" - Wow!

"Ecce!" - Look!

Can't think of any more off the top of my head.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Most Latin curses you'll see are neologisms. People take elements from real words and combine them to make new ones. I can't think of any off the top of my head, though. I might have some written in my Latin notebook from 9th grade. I can try to find it when I get home.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Latin swearwords found in Catullus's poetry, and in graffiti... er..."Lupa" (1st decelension, just means wolf) meant "prostitute" or "bitch", "leo" (3rd dec. just meant lion) for "pimp". "Culus" (2nd dec.) meant arse, caco "I shit".
"Busirape!" meant graverobber. "illigitemes" (sp?)=bastard but that might have been a neologism
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PostPosted: Thu May 29, 2008 3:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
http://en.wikipedia.org/Latin_profanity

Hope that helps! Explicit language warning.

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PostPosted: Thu May 29, 2008 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Eheu! - Oh no!
Hercle! - By Hercules!

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 9:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
scelesta lupa! (wicked bitch)

talkite! (shut up)

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