Original text - Latin - genibus nititor canisCurrent status Original text
Category Expression - Culture  This translation request is "Meaning only". | | Text to be translated
Submitted by  tripleh | Source language: Latin
genibus nititor canis | Remarks about the translation | j aimerais connaitre le signification de cette citation latine
<edit> "nitito" with "nititor"</edit> on a (07/15francky on a pirulito's notification) |
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18 September 2007 20:19 | | | Has any of you guys got an idea
about the meaning of this quote (if ever it is one). I don't (but I'm not Latin expert either)
CC: goncin Porfyhr Xini | | |
18 September 2007 20:26 | | 
XiniNumber of messages: 1655 | genÃbus nitor = to be down on oneself's knee...
canis = dog...
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18 September 2007 20:31 | | | I guess that the first word is misspelled and the right quotation should be:
"Genius nititio canis"
'A wise man strikes a dog with the fur'
i.e. If you should have success lick a**.
Makes that sense?
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18 September 2007 20:31 | | | thank you for yours answers | | |
18 September 2007 20:38 | |
XiniNumber of messages: 1655 | Porfyhr, I don't think that's right.
Genibus nitor is an expression.
It's "The dog on his knees" in my opinion.
Charisgre? CC: charisgre | | |
18 September 2007 20:52 | | | No problem to find the answer on Google. :
"Kneel down before me dog."
I did a translation and pointed to the fact that it could be misspelled with an extra b.
I supposed the picture had something to do with the quotation.
Anyhow I did a translation that I do not think is wrong.
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22 September 2007 18:09 | | | canis is Nominativusor Vocativus, genibus - on knees, and nitito is an imperative form. So this could be
Get down (nitito) on you knees, dog
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- 15 July 2008 09:52
