Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Latin term or phrase:
femina cui donum dabatur est latea
English translation:
the woman who has been given a gift is happy
Latin term
femina cui donum dabatur est latea
| 3 +5 | the woman who has been given a gift is happy |
Nick Lingris
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Leonardo Marcello Pignataro (X)
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Kirill Semenov
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Jul 26, 2005 13:04: JCEC changed "Language pair" from "English" to "Latin to English"
Jul 26, 2005 13:19: Kirill Semenov changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Jul 26, 2005 18:39: Will Matter changed "Language pair" from "Latin to English" to "English to Latin"
Aug 8, 2005 06:10: Kirill Semenov changed "Language pair" from "English to Latin" to "Latin to English"
PRO (2): Vicky Papaprodromou, Kirill Semenov
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Proposed translations
United Kingdom
The word is my oyster
Native in: Greek 
Works in: English to Greek, Greek to English, Greek
the woman who has been given a gift is happy
And I think there's a typo, and it should be 'laeta', which makes more sense to me.
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Leonardo Marcello Pignataro (X)
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Thanks, Leonardo. And for your hilarious contribution, too.
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Vicky Papaprodromou
: Yes, it could be.
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Thanks, Vicky.
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homuncula (X)
: yep, typo is most likely
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Thank you!
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Kirill Semenov
: true. I had to think that it might be a typo :)
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Andrea Kopf
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Ukraine
60+ books translated and published
Native in: Russian
Works in: English to Russian, Russian
the woman which was given presents is unknown
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Vicky Papaprodromou
: Hi Kirill.:-) The woman WHO... is unknown/lives in obscurity.
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thank you Vicky, you are right :) As for the asker, don't forget that non-rgistered members cannot use "Pro" for thier questions, only "non-Pro" by default ;-)
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Along with Nick, I do think it is a "typo" for "laeta".
Should it not be so, "latea" is a late/middle Latin adj. derived from "latus,a,um" meaning "wide, large", and it can still be found in Bothanics referring to plants with "wide, large" leaves (e.d. "latifolia")and in their names. Plenty occurrences can be found also on the net.
It should not to be mistaken with the verb "lateo", "to be/lay hidden".
It has to be said that in classical Latin "latus" could also mean "fat, huge" or "big-breasted", but I don't think this is the case. :-)
HIH
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Laurel Porter (X)
: Tee-hee! "The woman who has been given a gift has large breasts"... Sounds like a Hollywood courtship! ;-) // When in LA, do as the Romans do!
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Way too much!! Still, did not the Romans know how to enjoy life??? :-) :-) :-)
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Kirill Semenov
: most probably, Leonardo :)
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