Latin aficionados, I have a question.

[interwyrm]

Pig Latin:

Ookbe foe hete Eadde


German:

Buch der Toten

Too bad german sounds too similar to english... buch.. book? same thing.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

How about Elven?

Parma tel'barim (Book of the Dead)

Parymo tel'barim (Scroll of the Dead)

 

[WhimsyTheFae]

Wow, so many choices...

Thanks for all of the input (I'll have to nix the Klingon and Pig Latin right out, sorry).

 

[ephemeron]

"Book of the Dead" is indeed Liber mortuorum. For another approach, Romans liked to use the subjects of books as titles, e.g. Cicero's De natura deorum, "On the Nature of the Gods" -- so you could use something like De mortuis, "On the Dead". "On the Walking Dead" would be De mortuis ambulantibus, "On the Restless Dead" is De mortuis inquietis...

(Oh, and "ferialis" is "festival".)

 

[Jdvn1]

http://catholic.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookdown.pl?book+dead

This help?

 

[Thunderfoot]

Also - Libris means "books" not "book" Libram or Liber is closer to book with Libram more of a focus on a collected work like a dictionary or encylcopedia and Liber mean a novel or story.

Ex Libris Des Mortuis

The closest literal translation for this is actually "From the library of the unliving" So if the underworld has a checkout section, this stamp would be quite prevalent.

Actually, I'll have to remember that one.

 

[WhimsyTheFae]

The closest literal translation for this is actually "From the library of the unliving" So if the underworld has a checkout section, this stamp would be quite prevalent.

Actually, I'll have to remember that one.

Ooh, I like that one...

 

[fiddlerjones]

That's a strange accent you've got there... Orthodox?

Actually I'm just learining it... didn't know the word for "the dead" but figured it was somewhere along those lines. Thanks for clearing it up.