[Sca-cooks] Latin lesson, OT OOP

[Sue Clemenger]

Yeah, it's Latin all right.  "Luctor" is a verb meaning "to wrestle,
struggle, strive," and "emergo" means "to cause to rise up" and in other
forms, can mean "to raise oneself up, to rise" or "to come forth or up,
to emerge, to extricate oneself," and they're both first person
singular, present tense. (this all according to me handy-dandy
pocket-sized latin/english dictionary from woefully many years ago in
college).
So your dad is close, and perhaps that's one way of translating it, but
it looks more to me like it says "I struggle and rise up."  "Luctor" is
a verb referring to struggle and strife, and not the noun.  "Et", as
well, is a conjunction meaning "and," not "from" (which would be "ab,"
"de," or "ex," depending on context).  However, my knowledge of
idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms sucked even when I was reading
Horace, so I could be wrong!
--Maire, pretending she knows what she talking about (well, the danged
liberal arts degrees've gotta be good for something else besides
qualifying me to say "Would you like fries with that, sir?")

Olwen the Odd wrote:
>
> OK all you knowers of latin, well I suppose it's latin, it could be Greek
> for all *I* know, which is why I'm asking for help.  What does this mean?
> Luctor et Emergo  For some reason my dad thinks it means "rise up from the
> stuggle"  Actually, I would be fairly impressed if he were correct, but I
> doubt he is.  If he isn't, it would suit me fine if I could correct him.
>