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Subject: Latin Translation
Category: Reference, Education and News > General Reference
Asked by: kanimwa-ga
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Posted: 03 Aug 2004 07:03 PDT
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Question ID: 382897
What is the Latin equivalent of "context" (as a noun) and of
"Knowledge is in context"?
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Subject: Re: Latin Translation
From: purkinje-ga on 03 Aug 2004 19:54 PDT
 
"Context" is a masculine noun, "contextus."
The translation of the phrase above would be "Scientia in contexto
est." (Scientia is pronounced "ski-EN-tia").
Subject: Re: Latin Translation
From: hlabadie-ga on 04 Aug 2004 12:27 PDT
 
Contextus is fourth declension masculine, declined as follows:

contextus - nom. sing.
contextus - gen. sing.
contextui - dat. sing.
contextum - acc. sing.
contextu  - abl. sing.

The preposition "in" requires the ablative. ("in contextu operis
dicemus," Tacitus.) Thus, the correct translation is "scientia in
contextu est."

hlabadie-ga

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