Underdog.

[Seanlfc]

What is the Latin translation of the word underdog, please?
I want to use it as an inspirational tattoo. Obviously in a masculine sense.
Any help would be greatly appreciated...

 

[Adrian]

I was thinking of tenissime tenuissime aestimatus.

 

[Pacifica]

I think you meant tenuissime. It seems a somewhat strange wording, though.

There's no straightforward Latin translation for "underdog". Anything we might come up with will be an approximation.

 

[Adrian]

@Pacifica thanks, I missed the "u" - I supported my translation on CCELD (entry for "underrate")

I forgot "underdog" has two meanings:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/en/dictionary/english/underdog

I guess the OP has to provide info about context.
1) a person or group of people with less power, money, etc. than the rest of society - inferior / humilis / plebeius / contemptus
2) the weaker of two competitors, or anyone not expected to win a competition: "inconspicuus victor"???

 

[Seanlfc]

Hey thanks for your replies. I wasn't aware that there isn't a literal translation of the word underdog in Latin so I have learned something already. So in that case I guess I'm looking for something appeals to our capacity to never give up in the face of adversity and overwhelming odds. I hope that helps.

 

[Imperfacundus]

Et rebus adversis = "even in trying circumstances".

 

[Hawkwood]

I think you meant tenuissime. It seems a somewhat strange wording, though.

There's no straightforward Latin translation for "underdog". Anything we might come up with will be an approximation.

But is there a term for what we call today an underdog? Just thinking of Generals, games, the political arena, etc.

 

[Adrian]

But is there a term for what we call today an underdog? Just thinking of Generals, games, the political arena, etc.

Underdog - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Bible Stories Explained: David and Goliath (Vulgata Clementina)

David and Goliath - What does this story mean and how does it apply to my life? Read from 1_Samuel 17 (Vulgata Clementina).

newchristianbiblestudy.org

David Goliath(um)* percutiens
David Goliath(o)* praevalens
[minor/parvus] [maiorem/grandem] petens - [smaller/small] taking on the [bigger/big]

*couldn't find declesnion of noun Goliath - merely assumption.

 

[Agrippa]

...*couldn't find declension of noun Goliath - merely assumption.

No problem, remains undeclined; cf. http://www.monumenta.ch/latein/advkonkordanz.php?suchbegriff2=Goliath&binary=&modif=&domain=&lang=0&tabelle=Latein&id=&kkwlaus=kk_alle&von=advsuchen&suchbegriff=Goliath&target=

 

[Pacifica]

Qui videar impar, victor evadam = "Though I seem no match, I will turn out the winner."

 

[Agrippa]

Verba Pacificae in formam iambici senarii redegi:

Impar qui videar, victor evadam tamen.

 

[Pacifica]

Verba Pacificae in formam iambici senarii redegi:

Let's translate this for the OP's benefit, since he doesn't know Latin.

Agrippa has modified my sentence slightly (though the meaning doesn't change) so as to make it fit into a line of verse (an iambic senarius, a form of meter).

 

[Agrippa]

Let's translate this for the OP's benefit, since he doesn't know Latin. ...

Thank you very much! Please excuse me for writing Latin without translation. 'The force of habit.'

 

[Seanlfc]

Really appreciate your help with this everyone. But due to it not being something easily translated, how about this one "I go again" from the viewpoint of not resting on ones laurels. Could this be an easier one to translate perhaps?

 

[Agrippa]

How about
"semper pergo / procedo / progredior", > I always proceed (besides, there is a rather worn-out cliché "semper porro" > always forward),
"numquam iners / desidiosus / languidus" > never inactive,
and so forth...

 

[syntaxianus]

What is the Latin translation of the word underdog, please?

posthabitus = "esteemed less"

competitor posthabitus = "competitor esteemed less" = underdog