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latin translation: Gratia benedictus vs Benedictus gratiam?

Please translate both phrases, as is possiible, or correct. Thanks

Gratia benedictus

Benedictus gratiam

I'm playing with the idea of kindness, blessing, and friendship in this, but I never studied Latin and so I don't know the fine grammar points of writiing it correctly!

Update:

I'm presuming gratia benedicta can mean 'blessed friendship', or 'kind/beautiful friend/ship

Benedictum gratiam using objective case- are we into something like thanks to Grace? or blessed grace?

Update 2:

or Grace blessed

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  • 1 decade ago

    it depends on what you mean to say. Gratia = favour or grace (as in gracious, good looking), but it can also mean good friendship. Gratiam = the same in the accusative, direct object.

    benedictus = blessed. It being a adjective, it needs to be in the same case, gender and number as the noun it refers to, and should be benedicta if it refers ot gratia.

    So: gratia benedicta would be something like blessed (good) friendship. In Latin you normally put the noun before the adjective.

  • 1 decade ago

    you would want the gender of benedictus to match that of gratia. so you would write "gratia benedicta" or "gratiam benedictam" (the first one is a subject and the second would be the object. my guess is that you want the first.)

    Source(s): 3 years of latin
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