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Latin translation: laevae/laevum/sinistrae/sinistrum

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English term or phrase:Left
Latin translation:laevae/laevum/sinistrae/sinistrum
Entered by: Joseph Brazauskas

12:02 Apr 29, 2009
English to Latin translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general) / X-ray imaging
English term or phrase: Left
The translated text is to be used on X-rays to show the left-hand side of human body parts.
Grete GP
Local time: 03:53
laevae/laevum/sinistrae/sinistrum
Explanation:
Again, as is the case with 'dexter', the form of the word will depend upon the referent. It will be feminine plural ('laevae' or 'sinistrae') or neuter singular ('laevum' or 'sinistrum'), depending upon whether it refers to the body parts ('partes corporis') or to the side ('latus').

The form of adjectives in inflected languages like Latin and Greek cannot be separated from the substantives which they modify. In other words, it does not suffice simply to supply the dictionary headword without consideration of the case, gender, and number of the substantives which are their referents, as can be done in English. And the referents must be the Latin or Greek substantives, not their English equivilents.
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Local time: 21:53
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Summary of answers provided
5laevus -laeva -um /laeva (manus)
Constantinos Faridis (X)
5laevae/laevum/sinistrae/sinistrum
Joseph Brazauskas
4laevus
Yasutomo Kanazawa


  

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left
laevus


Explanation:
Meaning the left side in Latin.

Yasutomo Kanazawa
Japan
Local time: 10:53
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
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left
laevus -laeva -um /laeva (manus)


Explanation:
if hand = (manus) laeva.
lauvus (m)-a (F)-um (n)

Constantinos Faridis (X)
Greece
Local time: 04:53
Native speaker of: Greek
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left
laevae/laevum/sinistrae/sinistrum


Explanation:
Again, as is the case with 'dexter', the form of the word will depend upon the referent. It will be feminine plural ('laevae' or 'sinistrae') or neuter singular ('laevum' or 'sinistrum'), depending upon whether it refers to the body parts ('partes corporis') or to the side ('latus').

The form of adjectives in inflected languages like Latin and Greek cannot be separated from the substantives which they modify. In other words, it does not suffice simply to supply the dictionary headword without consideration of the case, gender, and number of the substantives which are their referents, as can be done in English. And the referents must be the Latin or Greek substantives, not their English equivilents.

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Local time: 21:53
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