Comments on: How to transate ‘digital camera’ into Latin language? http://language-latin.com/how-to-transate-digital-camera-into-latin-language.html Find out about the language of Latin online. Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:57:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lusa Naturae http://language-latin.com/how-to-transate-digital-camera-into-latin-language.html/comment-page-1#comment-269 Lusa Naturae Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:01:35 +0000 http://language-latin.com/how-to-transate-digital-camera-into-latin-language.html#comment-269 Digital camera pretty much already is Latin! Let me explain: Digital comes from the Latin word digitus, which means finger. Camera obscura started to be used in the 16th century to mean a dark chamber, or a black box with a lens that could project images of external objects. Thus, together, digital camera actually means something like "Finger box". Digital camera pretty much already is Latin! Let me explain:

Digital comes from the Latin word digitus, which means finger.

Camera obscura started to be used in the 16th century to mean a dark chamber, or a black box with a lens that could project images of external objects.

Thus, together, digital camera actually means something like "Finger box".

]]> By:        http://language-latin.com/how-to-transate-digital-camera-into-latin-language.html/comment-page-1#comment-270        Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:01:35 +0000 http://language-latin.com/how-to-transate-digital-camera-into-latin-language.html#comment-270 Wow. It'd suprise me if there was a translation for but cool question btw Wow. It’d suprise me if there was a translation for but cool question btw

]]> By: LatinGuy http://language-latin.com/how-to-transate-digital-camera-into-latin-language.html/comment-page-1#comment-271 LatinGuy Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:01:35 +0000 http://language-latin.com/how-to-transate-digital-camera-into-latin-language.html#comment-271 I'd render it as "photographicator electronicus." "Camera" in Latin is a chamber, not a modern "camera," and "digitalis" means "related to the finger," which makes little sense here. I’d render it as "photographicator electronicus." "Camera" in Latin is a chamber, not a modern "camera," and "digitalis" means "related to the finger," which makes little sense here.

]]> By: Encolpius http://language-latin.com/how-to-transate-digital-camera-into-latin-language.html/comment-page-1#comment-272 Encolpius Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:01:35 +0000 http://language-latin.com/how-to-transate-digital-camera-into-latin-language.html#comment-272 My suggestion: "imaginographica machinula (sine pellicula)" In the Latin version of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's [Sorceror's] Stone", Peter Needham (a renowned Eton Classics teacher) translates "video camera" as "cinematographica machinula". By analogy, a camera without "cinematic" qualities could plausibly be "imaginographica". The "digital" part may be translated as "without film", or "sine pellicula" (modern European languages have words for "film" that derive from the Latin "pellicula", such as French "pellicule"; "pellicula" means "little skin"). However, "digital" in this context really means something like "relying on binary code" (which forms the building blocks for the language that computers and memory cards use), but this concept was not familiar in the West until medieval times. My suggestion: "imaginographica machinula (sine pellicula)"

In the Latin version of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s [Sorceror's] Stone", Peter Needham (a renowned Eton Classics teacher) translates "video camera" as "cinematographica machinula". By analogy, a camera without "cinematic" qualities could plausibly be "imaginographica".

The "digital" part may be translated as "without film", or "sine pellicula" (modern European languages have words for "film" that derive from the Latin "pellicula", such as French "pellicule"; "pellicula" means "little skin").

However, "digital" in this context really means something like "relying on binary code" (which forms the building blocks for the language that computers and memory cards use), but this concept was not familiar in the West until medieval times.

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