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Old 25th September 2007, 11:28 AM   #6 (permalink)
Mary Hoffman
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Re: Help with translation into Latin please.

You don't need any "id est" which means "this is". If you just want a phrase for City of Lamentations on its own, it should be "urbs (or civitas) luctuum".

Urbs is the nominative singular of a third declension noun and luctuum is the genitive plural of the fourth declension noun "luctus", which means lamentation, grief etc. Otherwise you could use "civitas" for city. And if you really want lamentationes, they would need to be in the genitive case, lamentationum.

Mary
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