A Place of Brightness: Learning Latin with Pope Francis

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Learning Latin with Pope Francis - June 30, 2014

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June 30, 2014

Literal translation of the Latin: Bring help to us, O Jesus, that we may love God as Father and (our) neighbor as brother.

I'm not certain why the translators departed from the allusion here to Mark 12:31:

Diliges proximum tuum tamquam teipsum.
You should love your neighbor as yourself

The Latin tweet does, however, enjoy a greater parallelism between the two propositions.

Here's how the Latin works.

Latin	English	Parsing	Grammar Points
Adfer	Bring	imper. verb	adfero, adferre, adtuli, adlatum
Iesu	O Jesus	voc. sing. masc. name	Iesus, Iesu
auxilium	help	acc. sing. neut. noun	auxilium, auxilii; obj. of adfer
nobis	to us	dat. pl. pronoun	nos, nostrum
ut	in order that	conj.	introduces purpose clause with subjunctive verb diligamus
Deum	God	acc. sing. masc. noun	Deus, Dei; obj. of diligamus
tamquam	as	conj.
Patrem	Father	acc. sing. masc. noun	pater, patris
diligamus	we may love	1st pers. pl. pres. act. subj. verb	diligo, diligere, dilexi, dilectum
vicinum	the neighbor	acc. sing. masc. noun	vicinus, vicini; obj. of diligamus
-que	and	conj.	enclitic
sicut	as	conj.
fratrem	brother	acc. sing. masc. noun	frater, fratris

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Learning Latin with Pope Francis - June 30, 2014

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