What does 'Colluctatio Cervus Reperio Excellantia' mean?

Wrestling Deer Finds Excellence

" Wrestling Deer Finds Excellence "

" @StarvingGamer said:

" Wrestling Deer Finds Excellence "

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I thought it was pretty prima facie. Duh. Kids these days don't know any latin.

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I thought it was pretty prima facie. Duh. Kids these days don't know any latin.

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Wait, you can suddenly have random Latin sayings on Giant Bomb, now? I need to get in on that. Give me a few minutes.
 
Got it: rex omnia novit. The King knows all.

Wrestling deer (discovers) excellence
 
french Repere which is to find or discover....

Probably a spell from Harry Potter

My Latin is rusty as hell but we never even learned about Luchadeers in class. 
 
Thanks for nothing, Magister O'Neill.

I'll be impressed once they start using Ancient Greek.

Ave. 

I think this is because of the New World Order, or whatever it is called.
 
Ah, Illuminati. 

"I'll be impressed once they start using Ancient Greek. "

How about this one:

De gustibus non est disputandem.

" How about this one: De gustibus non est disputandem. "

@Gaff said:

" How about this one: De gustibus non est disputandem. "

De gustibus non disputandum est.  There's no arguing with taste (roughly).

" Probably a spell from Harry Potter "

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

All I remember from Latin in school is "Grumio est in culina."

" @dudacles said:

"I'll be impressed once they start using Ancient Greek. "

How about a real challenge: In Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic script. "

I never took Latin in school, but I took 4 years of French, including 4th semester French at college, so don't look down your nose at me!

" My Latin is rusty as hell but we never even learned about Luchadeers in class.  Thanks for nothing, Magister O'Neill. "

" Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. "

Memento mori

I only know "Per Ardua Ad Astra" and "Repensum Est Canicula" from Sword of the Stars, but I kinda feel that second one is all I need to know.

 BTW, Giant Bomb Crew, that Latin is totally wrong.  You can't just plug some words into an online translator and expect that it will return correct Latin grammar and syntax.   Just like you can't generally plug words into a Spanish translation site and get proper Spanish grammar and syntax from it.
 
Colluctatio is a noun , not an adjective, meaning "a wrestling or a struggle" 
 
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059:entry%3Dcolluctatio  
 
Reperio is the first person singular present indicative of  "reperio, reperire" meaning "to find again, find, discover"  but here it's as if you said "I discover" rather than "he, she or it discovers" or reperit. 
 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0060:entry%3Dreperio 
 http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/go.php?T1=reperio&imageField.x=9&imageField.y=11&D1=9&H1=109 
 
And it's also Excellentia, not Excellantia 
 
Excellentia.  Noun of the first declension.  Accusative case for direct object of the verb "reperio" makes it "Excellentiam", accusative singular.
 
Should be more like 
 
"Cervus Luctandus Excellentiam Reperit" 
 
Gerundive of "luctor" for wrestling. Adjectives follow their nouns.  Verbs generally occur at the end of a sentence. 
 
And that's your Latin lesson for the day.     

You know, I just started thinking about this, and this doesn't appear to be correct Latin to me. 
 
I actually believe it's supposed to be "Luctandus cervus reperit Excellentiam."
 
"Reperio" is first person singular of "reperire", whereas "cervus" is obviously third person singular. Similarly, "excellentia" is female, as far as I know, and its accusative form (since it follows the first declension) should therefore be "excellentiam" as opposed to "excellentia." "Colluctatio" isn't a verb either, actually referring to the act of wrestling rather than forming the adjective to a "wrestling" subject.
 
Right?
 

@lepton:

Cool, a fellow sufferer at the hands of a Latin education.  I don't know that "luctandus" is totally right.  I don't remember much of anything about the proper use of the gerundive, but it's much better than it was originally.  In a similar vein, there may be a better word choice than "reperio, reperire", but I didn't go that far. And of course, sentences were often strangely constructed in Latin, so a real expert in the Latin language might suggest a whole different set of words or constructs than this simple formulation.

This thread just makes me think of this.  I think every WoW server has a guild named this.  I have no idea who the people are in the picture below.  

 

" Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. "

I think it was a ship from the 1600s.

" Cool, a fellow sufferer at the hands of a Latin education.  I don't know that "luctandus" is totally right.  I don't remember much of anything about the proper use of the gerundive, but it's much better than it was originally.  In a similar vein, there may be a better word choice than "reperio, reperire", but I didn't go that far. And of course, sentences were often strangely constructed in Latin, so a real expert in the Latin language might suggest a whole different set of words or constructs than this simple formulation. "

Yeah, I had some of the same thoughts but without the specificity as to the grammar.  An adjectival clause is properly more appropriate as you have stated.  "Deer that wrestles" as opposed to "Wrestling deer".  Also I wouldn't used "reperio"  since it means finds or discovers.  I think they want something more like seeks.  One could have used something as simple as "peto, petere" which is kind of a first year of Latin word. 
 
http://catholic.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookdown.pl?seek

" All I remember from Latin in school is "Grumio est in culina." "

Reminds me of the old rhyme my dad use to say from his years in college for being a paralegal. I'm sure a lot of people know it, say it along with me!
 
Latin's a dead language
dead as dead can be
first it killed the romans
and now it's killing me!