Were you trying to say Adeptus Astrates?

Or is it water marines? Cause, I dunno, Aequoreus sounds like water.

I'd assume it's just 'space marine' as marine covers water already.

@troll93 said:

To my understanding this is the closest to an actual Latin translation of space marine

No, it is a literal translation. It would never actually be that in latin. Just like you wouldn't translate Centurion to "head of 100" in English.

@alternate said:

@troll93 said:

To my understanding this is the closest to an actual Latin translation of space marine

No, it is a literal translation. It would never actually be that in latin. Just like you wouldn't translate Centurion to "head of 100" in English.

It's a pretty bad literal translation at that, since it means something like "aquatic expanse." The best latin translation for marine in the military sense is more like milites classicus - that's what the Romans called their shipborne infantry, and means something like "fleet soldier." I'm not sure what the latin term for our concept of outer space would be - astrumi, maybe?

@alternate said:

@troll93 said:

To my understanding this is the closest to an actual Latin translation of space marine

No, it is a literal translation. It would never actually be that in latin. Just like you wouldn't translate Centurion to "head of 100" in English.

This is very true. Latin words used in Modern English today have a lot of their original meanings lost in time.

To translate Latin straight to English, or visa versa, would sound just like those English subtitles of the Japanese translations of Star Wars.

Lastly I should also point out to troll93, that the language spoken by humans of the year 40,000 is either High Gothic or Low Gothic which is a mixture of Latin, English, slang of that planet, Asian Pacific languages, etc.