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Latine reddere titulum.

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Flamma mea viva manebit.

Digna sum.

These formulations are grammatically correct Latin.\nFor a slightly more elegant or classical touch, you could consider:

  • Flamma mea vivet (Alternative: active present)
  • Sum digna or Sum digna bastam (simpler: Sum digna)
  • Or a single, more literary option: Flamma mea manebit viva (though less common)

If you’d like a more natural tattoo style, you might prefer:

  • Flamma mea vivet — “My flame shall live on.”
  • Suma digna sum isn’t standard; better: Suma digna sum would be “I am worth more,” but the usual is Sum digna.

Merci :)

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    Radinoz Posted messages 7327 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   1 169
     

    Hello

    Honestly, for a tattoo that will stay on your skin for life, I wouldn't risk using an online translation (or using a phrase you yourself translated).

    There is this, but it's word-for-word (you won't be able to get a complete sentence from it - not to mention that the first one seems difficult to translate as-is, even in French I'm not sure of the meaning):

    Well you might tell me that Latin being a dead language means the percentage of people who would be able to tell you there are mistakes is relatively low…

    ;)

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  2. Redbart Posted messages 20953 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   3 382
     

    Hi


     

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    1. brucine Posted messages 25140 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 167
       

      Hello,

      Because you think Google Translate or Copilot are not just approximate and that they are filled with classical letters or that someone on this forum is?

      I don’t understand it either, but apparently the author doesn’t either, otherwise she wouldn’t ask the question and the vast majority of people wouldn’t either; the importance is therefore very relative.

      That of “elegance” is another one, I’m not sure that whatever the language there is any elegance in the way the carcasses are engraved as at the butcher’s.

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  3. Redbart Posted messages 20953 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   3 382
     

    Message received — for another recipient, that said.

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