How can I write this phrase in Latin "..with beauty and strength"?
Sunday, October 18th, 2009 at
11:19 am
I'm creating some marketing material for a business and would like to depict this phrase in Latin. The business sells jewelry that is both beautiful and of good quality (strength)
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Forma et Firmitate.
It’s alliterative (hence it sounds nice).
Forma is "with beauty" as in the beautiful shape or design of something (as opposed to "pulchritudo" which is feminine beauty), and Firmitate is "with strength" as in material strength (as opposed to "fortitudo" meaning physical strength or "vis" meaning power). They are both in the ablative case–hence "with."
The equivalent in Latin of "jewelry of/with beauty and strength" would simply be "beautiful, strong gems".
~ gemmae formosae et firmae
If you want the Latin to retain the nouns "beauty" & "strength", they need to be combined with adjectives.
Jewelry of/with extraordinary beauty and marvellous strength
~ gemmae forma eximia et firmitate mirabili