Mama Anna Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 I've got a line from Mozart's Laudate Dominum for which I'm wanting to find a word-by-word translation. Anyone up for it? "Quoniam confirmata est supernos misericordia ejus" The translation given is "For his merciful kindness is great toward us." I'm not good enough at Latin (I've never had it, just sung it a lot) to figure out what means what. Help? TIA! Mama Anna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corduroy Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 My Latin is older than I care to admit, and I learned with classical texts, not ecclesiastical Latin... which is a long way of saying I could be very wrong, but: "Quoniam confirmata est supernos misericordia ejus" I would write that as: quoniam confirmata est super nos misericordia eius So, in the same order: whereas confirmed is upon us compassion his Or, less clunkily, but more literally than the translation given, something like "Whereas his compassion toward us is confirmed". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Anna Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 Ha! Great - thank you so much!! Mama Anna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 My Latin is older than I care to admit, and I learned with classical texts, not ecclesiastical Latin... which is a long way of saying I could be very wrong, but: "Quoniam confirmata est supernos misericordia ejus" I would write that as: quoniam confirmata est super nos misericordia eius So, in the same order: whereas confirmed is upon us compassion his Note that "confirmata est" is a perfect passive compound verb, not est + a participle. So, the literal translation is "has been confirmed". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Anna Posted September 7, 2012 Author Share Posted September 7, 2012 Thanks for the clarification! Mama Anna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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