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speaker_to_customers ([personal profile] speaker_to_customers) wrote2004-11-23 02:32 am
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Seeking help with languages

I'm after a Latin word or phrase meaning something like "let the bad air be cleared". Anything of that ilk. Something Willow at the peak of her powers might say as part of a spell to protect herself, and others, if she realised the air was contaminated by a hallucinogen.

Doesn't have to be Latin; Sanskrit would do, or Tibetan, even Welsh or Gaelic.

Also, if anyone knows the correct way of saying "the Catwoman" in German I'd be grateful for that too.

[identity profile] kantayra.livejournal.com 2004-11-23 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
aer malus purgetur

That would be 'let the bad air be cleared' in Latin, using the jussive passive subjunctive...

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[identity profile] speakr2customrs.livejournal.com 2004-11-23 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't quite phrase my request correctly; I'm after a command, more like "bad air go away, don't come back another day". Only without the "don't come back another day" bit.

[identity profile] kantayra.livejournal.com 2004-11-23 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
OK, in that case, the imperative would be:

abi, aer male

Literally: 'Go away, bad air.'

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[identity profile] speakr2customrs.livejournal.com 2004-11-23 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks, that's exactly what I'm after.