AD MULTOS/MOLTOS ANNOS PERIT
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September 20, 2010 at 12:58am
What's the Latin for traitor?
The members of Mr Mintoff’s extensive fan club appear to know neither English nor Maltese, but they do have a smattering of Latin.
Ad multos annos perit
Or, as it is more frequently put:
Ad moltos annos perit
Perhaps it’s time we told them that ‘perit’ is also a Latin word. It means, if my distant memory of classes with Horatio Vella and Biagio Vella is not too blurred, ‘he dies’.
AD MULTOS ANNOS PERIT
TO MANY YEARS HE DIES
How unfortunate.
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The members of his fan club should be awarded a degree (aka karta tal-incova) in Latin, honoris causa.
Best not. There are numerous clauses.
One o’clock in the morning and still feverishly scratching your itches.
Maybe you need to see a dermatologist.
0240 hours, and you’re still hooked to this blog! (Now please don’t tell me you’re in a different time zone, because that would be too feeble an excuse.)
Proditor
Kien jispicca il–‘meetings’ tieghu bi frazi li kienet ironika: “Malta l-ewwel u qabel …..kollox.”. Kien jghidhilna f’wiccna u ma nindunawx.
Your nickname speaks volumes gahan
from the internet
traitor = proditor
perit = no answer
I have also been with Horatio Vella at the Univ. and have been lectured by Biagio Vella in the Latin class when preparing for my A level Latin in the 6th Form ( it was me and another student only): I think that the past for the 3rd person is “peruit”.
I might be mistaken, but isn’t “perit” to lose. “Res perit domino” – Something lost to the owner.
“perit” in Latin means to perish.
So Daphne is very close with her definition.
I thought he has already passed away: yes, “perit” is for the present tense.
victor il perit ma imut qatt tal gid li ghamel ghall pajizna ara gonzi pn farku lill malta lill mintoff jamlulu funural statali u ikun l akbar wiehed il gonzi kif ghamel zijuh namlulu ja hodor
perit = to perish
‘Perit’ : Third person singular active indicative present.
Again I ask – when is his funeral?
First they wreak havoc with English; now it’s Latin’s turn.
I looked it on this website http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=Latin&to=English and the result is
Translations:
skilled, skilful, expert, skillful
[Daphne – Perit is the third person singular in the present tense of the verb ‘to perish’. That’s why the English word is perish.]
I found this article from March 1981 online. It’s from Minerva, a social science journal. The article is called “The destruction of the University of Malta”, and it describes Mintoff’s education policies and certain events which occurred during his time.
I tried to post the link on timesofmalta.com, but it was not uploaded.
I am too young to remember those times, and would be interested to hear from anybody who can corroborate what was written. I am particularly interested in the claim that only GWU-selected individuals were allowed into the polytechnic.
This certainly seems to go against the dictum that “Mintoff fetah l-universita’ ghall-kullhadd”.
I have shared the pdf on (sorry free hosting):
[Daphne – Instead of going through a hosting site, which is complicated, please past the actual link here. You can do it for a PDF if you have found it on line. Thanks. Otherwise, please email the actual PDF to me at [email protected].]
looks to me you are all wrong. Perit means Alla ta Malta
la qat kien aw lanqas ikun aw.
Awguri dearest perit Ad multos annos perit
Daphne you’re fucking mental case. Mela ma jkollikx x’taghmel jew id-dar int jew ghandek il-maid ruhi. Jien nitkaza nara dawn l-oxxenitajiet kollha specjalment fuq bniedem qed imut. Int qed tajjar lil Mintoff b’dan kollu?? Meta inti qed taghmel ghar mill-laburisti tas-snin 80 li intom in-nazzjonalisti tghidu li hu zmien id-dlam u l-vjolenza, imma min jaf minn min kienet gejja l-vjolenza. Anke l-knisja kienet talbet skuza lil pl talli kienu jidfnu l-laburisti fil-mizbla. Daphne jien laburist u qatt ma nisthi nghid li jien u dejjem ikkundannajt il-hazin. Il-vjolenza qatt ma kienet sabiha u ta minn jikkundanna u l-vjolenza ma hiex fizika biss imma hemm vjolenza morali u din tieghek hekk hija vjolenza morali u dan qed nghixu fl-2010. Immisek tisthi Daphne u kull min jaqbel mieghek. Mintoff kien li bena l-Malta taghna u l-gvernijiet tal-pn ftit ftit wiehed wara l-iehor kollox zarma. Jien ma nafx ghalfejn il-pl ghandu jitla fil-gvern xi darba. Ghalfejn ghandu jitla?? Ghal haga wahda ghandu ghalfejn jitla u haga wahda ghandu xjiehu hsieb biss…id-dejn li hallew il-gvernijiet nazzjonalisti ghax dak biss fadal ghax kollox bieghu hlief xi zewg azjendi mimlijien dejn bhal l-enemalta jew arms ltd jisolhu lin-nies. taf kif immissek issahhanhom lin-nies daphne ruhi billi theggeg protesti kbar pacifici kontra l-isparpaljar li hawn u l-poplu jhallas ghalih u mela hdura kontra l-laburisti biss. Insomma minnek x’tistenna hux??
l ewwel isir tieghek il funeral troy ish minn jixtiq deni jigi fuqu ja hodor cocroc nazzjonalisti ara ahna socjalisti b unuri li ghalimna il perit u nibqaw nitghalmu
u wiccek baqa daphanie is sahara tal bidnija ish mintoff qaleb ghall ahjar grazzi mulej
intom il veru hodor man baby daphe you fucken sick bustard ja ghatta liba mintoff huwa leggenda tal gid tridu u ma tridux ja ghatta liba
MINTOFF GHALLIEM IL KULHADD U MA KELLUX KILBA GHALL POTER MHUX BHALL DAWN DITTATURI JIBILAW OSTJA U JAHRAW IX XJATEN AHNA MA NEAJNIX IL MADONNA MILL RAMLA IL HAMRA U POGEJNA JOAN COLINS JA MAHMUGIN AA BILL HAQQ FOSOS VOJTA KLIEM VOJT TA GONZI
TKELMU BIL MALTI ISH AHNA MALTIN SE TAQBAD MA KARMENU ISSA QAS TOQOD HDEJN IT TOQBA TA SORMU JA SAHHARA TAL BIDNIJA
For most PN fans the word perit means ‘when u guys use to shit in your pants’