latin in runescape?

[hellbellz]

Am I the only one on this thread who doesn't know Latin?! :x

[Makoto_the_Phoenix]

Am I the only one on this thread who doesn't know Latin?! :x

 

 

 

I highly doubt that; a lot of people don't know Latin. Not just on this thread, mind you.

[jessy87]

Isn't Latin an unspeaken language these days? That's what my grandpa always said.. But a lot of words are derived from Latin words. Odd :-k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

latin is a dead language, no nation or soceity of specific people speak it, that is why it is used it medical/scientific type aspects. basically in 100 years i tiger in latin will mean tiger, and in 1000 years it will still mean tiger. we have so much slang in our languages today, that maybe what we call this or that today, maybe a president? or a plane or a fish in a thousand years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Am I the only one on this thread who doesn't know Latin?! :x

 

 

 

I highly doubt that; a lot of people don't know Latin. Not just on this thread, mind you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if your a basic america teen and have no college eduction im not surprised you know, none or little latin. latin really isnt used much in america as far as i know.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to be honest im suprised runescape has this much latin i didnt think england had too much of a latin influence

[hellbellz]

 

Isn't Latin an unspeaken language these days? That's what my grandpa always said.. But a lot of words are derived from Latin words. Odd :-k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

latin is a dead language, no nation or soceity of specific people speak it, that is why it is used it medical/scientific type aspects. basically in 100 years i tiger in latin will mean tiger, and in 1000 years it will still mean tiger. we have so much slang in our languages today, that maybe what we call this or that today, maybe a president? or a plane or a fish in a thousand years.

Ahh! That's right! I hate all those long named scientific things.

[anarchyman]

I am pretty sure the cat in the witches house that is in the underground pass speaks in latin if you have a cat speak amulet. I can't check for myself cause i am currently f2p and the last time i was there was long ago so it could of been changed or I am just thinking about something i thaught i saw but really didnt

[Elessar3019]

catherbery the town

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the first most popular english book ever to be writen which encourage many people to learn the english languge was called "canterbery" also the name of a town (if this book wasn't writen the english languge probaly would have died out)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This depends on whether you consider Old English to be English or not. The "Canterbery" you speak of is actually "The Canterbury Tales," written in 1386 by Geoffrey Chaucer. It was written in Middle English, a predecessor to the English we use today; the difference was that it was influenced more by the Saxon language and Latin and less by others (such as German). If Old English is considered to be English as well, then "Beowulf" is actually the first work of literature to be written in English. And English did not "almost die out." It developed over hundreds of years and was formed from a combination of the old Anglo-Saxon language and the Norse-French spoken by the Normans when they invaded England under William the Conqueror. I could also go into much more detail about the origins of the Saxon language, but that would be even farther off topic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And now an editorial note: it seems to me that the English language has all but died out, if the spelling and grammar on these forums have anything to say about it.

[Flippi273]

Ive been taking latin since the 7th grade (im in 11th fyi) and i have seen latin all over runescape (and most mmorpgs infact).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The most recent thing I some what remember is from the quest, My Arm's Big Adventure. At the very end he says "something domus (but i belive they used the accusative case, domum). In english it was something like home sweet home (bad translation..) but yeah i cant remember what exactly he said. ANYWAYS Domus means house or home in latin, and in fact your character goes what was that? and my arm goes its some very old language... see my arm is edumicated (or sumthing like that)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

let me find some latin from RS for you guys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dagannoth Rex(name of one of the Dag Kings) Rex in latin means king

 

 

 

Sanguinesti region (land with the vampyres) sanguis is blood in latin

 

 

 

Canifis (land with werewolfs) Canis is dog in latin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are many more ill post more if i can think of any, or see anything

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

anyways: Latina Amo (can you latin folks read that? pretty simple you should)

[jessy87]

i seriously wish i was fluent in every language in the world, latin is the 1 universal laguage and its pretty basic honestly, ive noticed latin translations usually resemble what it refers to in english or closely to it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i used to have this thing with a list of all the endangered species on it, and latin names for it. it was pretty amazing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

not a week goes by do i think i wish i know this language or that so that i could truly be a independant person. one of my main fears in life is going to a country and not being about to talk or get around at all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

let me say latin is perhaps 1 of the few languages id truely desire to learn, but german spanish latin japaneese. some other european languages to maybe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but jagex amazes me it throws that much stuff into its game

[TeeBeaun]

yeah, iv recognized a lot of latin stuff as well, i took it my last two semesters here at college.

[henk333]

 

 

 

to be honest im suprised runescape has this much latin i didnt think england had too much of a latin influence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually England was conquered by the Romans (native Latin speakers) all the way up to Scotland. So England definately has had a Latin influence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most European languages, except German and eastern European languages, have strong Latin roots. If you for instance know a bit of Spanish, you'll know some Latin words aswell.

[Mordendravid]

so, i have been taking latin as a foreign language in my school, and i have noticed some latin in runescape, example: Canifis(town)

 

 

 

canis-dog(latin)

 

 

 

so, i was wondering, has anybody else found any thing like i have

 

 

 

also, i have heard that miscelania is somewhat latin, correct me if im wrong, but a friend told me that miscillaneous has latin routs, sorry if i am incorrect

 

 

 

but has any body else found anything like i have?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yep Miscellania can be directly traced to the latin word 'Miscellanea' meaning sundries/odds and ends, indeed the same word is still in use today. There is also Miscellany meaning the same thing but with the more modern spelling - both are included in the English dictionary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both are derivatives of the latin word 'Miscellus' meaning mixed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Huge amounts of the English language are based upon Latin, using 'Canis' as another example, the modern day word 'Canine' is derived from it's Latin source. Interestingly though, the word 'Rune' is not Latin-based, but rather has Germanic and Celtic origins coming from the word 'Ru-no' meaning 'source of magic'

[dutchdreams]

Not to forget, that Latin was the universal language of science for about a millenium. It was widely used during the Middle Ages by people of science all over Europe. University lectures were given in Latin, scientific papers were written in Latin, letters/communication were written in Latin. With the rise of the British empire, came the decline of Latin as the universal language.

 

 

 

It was also used in Roman catholic church/clergy for centuries (which had a big impact on European history).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's a dead language for sure, nobody speaks it anymore as is. It provides me with insight in English though, e.g. (which is Latin btw for exempli gratia :P ) when confronted with a word that I don't know, I sometimes recognise the Latin root in it.

 

 

 

I still remember the first few lines of my first ever Latin text I saw in my textbook in highschool:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marcus et Cornelia in horto ambulant.

 

 

 

'Marce, Marce !' Cornelia exclamat, 'Serpens in hortum sedet'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(I probably made some errors in that, but hey, it's been 20 years)

[atestarossa]

Latin IV :) I've seen a lot of Latin stuff in RS. But I always forget to write it down. I know just yesterday, I saw something to do with Sanguis, or blood.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yea i thought about that, i do not learn latin in school, but do know a (very)little

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the sanguenti region, in mortania, ruled by vampires

[Holy_Monk]

Alot of things in runescape are from Real life such as Terror Birds (They are an actual Type of bird) and they also Quote alot From Games, Movies Etc. But once you think about it they kind of have to cause its hard to come up with 1,000,000 Names and all sorts of things for every little item in runescape.

[apcrump]

im in the top 5 in my school at latin and im only in year nine, and its secondary school. lupus is a wolf so there may be some connection to something there. and im not sure if canfis means dog...

[runescapeloser22]

this isnt latin but it has to do with jagex using things in the game, a while ago i remember someone had a screenshot where they were talking to a j-mod and they said they got the name "Lumbridge" from Cambridge

[Lord_K]

Jagex takes alot from other languages, as do many games, novels, films etc. After all if Canafis was called "dogton", it'd just sound stupid. Weiss (or originally weiÃÆÃâÃâ¦Ã¸) is white in German, as in Trollweiss, and Trollheim means troll home.

[rncd147]

 

latin is what people call a dead language, its called this cause like with english, english gets slang words like pal, sup, and so on, but with latin no slang words or any words are changed in oral or on written work, so basically if a scientist discovers a new cell o something, he'll name it in latin and it'll be translated from latin to french,spanish,italian,english,and nay other language. English is made up from alot of languages and continues to be made up from various and sometimes more languages.

 

 

 

(spelling sucks by the way=/)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think jagex even posted on the main site about using different language words for purposes that may involve the game becoming a bilingual or multilingual language game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

english was developed like pegion? (language developed in hawaii after they shiped slaves there for work on plantations from all pacific countries, mix of phillipean, chinese, japanese, hawaiian, and other

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pegion thast a language lol? never heard of it, i think you mixed up something here and any language is developt that way first u have so to say "the stem" of the language the main words and then when the language is develeped enough it absorbes words form other languages as far as i know one of the poorest languages is turckish since they dont have many words of their own and all the new aren't absorbed fast enough to full fill the breach thats made

[Nenga]

English is based on latin. It's no surprise you found latin or latin roots in a english game.

[deadmeet1234]

yar, there is a lot of Latin in this game if you just look for it. I am also a latin student (at our school for latin 1-3 we use the "Ecce Romani" series (look, the romans) i can't remember who it was who posted the line about marcus and cornelia, but those two are both in this book too lol. i'm in Latin 2 (which is really easy) we are currently working on the passive (for example: in tertio tabulato huius insulae est mater [bleep] duobus liberis. Hi miseri flammis paene opprimuntur)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i'll have to watch for more latin though, but i think a lot of the spells that the mages and whatnot say when they cast spells are in latin if i remember right

[000wnage000]

Ive been taking latin since the 7th grade (im in 11th fyi) and i have seen latin all over runescape (and most mmorpgs infact).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The most recent thing I some what remember is from the quest, My Arm's Big Adventure. At the very end he says "something domus (but i belive they used the accusative case, domum). In english it was something like home sweet home (bad translation..) but yeah i cant remember what exactly he said. ANYWAYS Domus means house or home in latin, and in fact your character goes what was that? and my arm goes its some very old language... see my arm is edumicated (or sumthing like that)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

let me find some latin from RS for you guys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dagannoth Rex(name of one of the Dag Kings) Rex in latin means king

 

 

 

Sanguinesti region (land with the vampyres) sanguis is blood in latin

 

 

 

Canifis (land with werewolfs) Canis is dog in latin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are many more ill post more if i can think of any, or see anything

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

anyways: Latina Amo (can you latin folks read that? pretty simple you should)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I like latin? Amo if it is used in first person sigular. If not what the heck are you saying :lol: .. amamus latina? we like latin. because it owns

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

deadmeet, i have also been using the same bookm, we are only on chapter 17, but we learn stuff outside like culture and stuff like that.. but for start of 3rd year 17 chapters is bad.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And to the person that said they speak latin in vatican city, i think they rarely speak it, Latin was not really a spoken laguage because it was the language of the educated.. which means they had to be which means..... very few people knew it, too few to communicate :)

[deadmeet1234]

oo cool ( i know this is off topic lol) are you at the point where they spend the 9 chapters or whatnot in the ditch yet? lol

[Rebdragon]

Maybe I'm oblivious, maybe it's because I don't play as much or that I don't do quests, but I'm in AP Latin Virgil (IV) and I don't notice too much Latin.

[Haitovich]

But one thing you should know is 60% of english comes from latin, so yes very easy to find a derivative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

60%, are you sure? I tought english was one of the least influenced by Latin.... anyways, I might be wrong

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still spanish and italian both are about 75% derived by latin, which makes it really easy for us to learn it =). Most of the latin words will sound as/like a (atleast) spanish word, so I only needed to learn the endings for the words

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And I do believe there's still too much latin for it being a "dead language". For example our school motto is Alere Flammam Veritatis, and I think the rest of the important schools have one of those....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I see it a lot in Mexico, maybe that's just me... or because the latin influence over spanish is too great, but there's still a lot of latin phrases laying around

[deadmeet1234]

to Haito:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

60-70% of English is derived from Latin words. The grammar, however, is different. English is considered to be a germanic language i believe, due to the grammar and whatnot, but the majority of the words do come from Latin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and about Latin being a dead language...that's wrong. Etruscan is a dead language (there is not a single known person in the entire world who can speak Etruscan. Scholars are pretty sure there is an etruscan language guide written by either Caligua or the emporor who followed him, but we have never found a copy of this, so noone can read any of the Etruscan writing (for those who don't know, Etruscans were the dominant Italian culture before the Romans, and even ruled the city of Rome for a while) while Latin is "frozen". It's frozen because as people said before, no real changes are made to it because no one really speaks latin. Latin is basically all writing and whatnot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But people should really look around a bit, they would be suprised how many things come from latin (easy example...i believe everyone here knows what pork is lol, well the latin word for pig is porcus...sound familiar? :P)