Love Boldly

[Nikolaos]

Hi everyone, glad to come across this forum. Thanks in advance for the help!

We are trying to translate our family motto to Latin. It is:

Love Boldly

The best I've been able to come up with so far is:

In Amor Audentia

Am I right in thinking this does the job? I am reading it (in my almost complete ignorance) as In Love, Boldness.

Is audentia the right word? Does it convey a fearless, bold, courage?

[Damoetas]

That's not a bad start, but it has a few problems. First, when a noun is the object of the preposition in, the noun has to be in the ablative case; with amor, that's amore. (no pun intended ) Secondly, audentia does have the meaning you want, but it's only rarely used; the more common word is audacia, which means essentially the same thing. (But of course you could still use audentia if you like the sound of it better.) So you could put it as follows:

In Amore Audacia.

You're right in observing that this literally means, "In love, boldness." If you wanted to stick closer to the English, you could say something like, Audacter Amare, which is more literally "love boldly." But I kind of think In Amore Audacia sounds better in Latin; phonetically too, it has a nice ring to it.

Let's see if other posters have comments or suggestions....

[Matthaeus]

Audacter ama/amate

[Chamaeleo]

To clarify,

‘Audacter amāre’ means ‘to love boldly’ (i.e. an infinitive)
‘Audacter amā’ means ‘love thou boldly’ (i.e. a command to one person)
‘Audacter amāte’ means ‘love ye boldly’ (i.e. a plural command)

[vangenne]

Thanks for your replies and advice. Unfortunately we jumped the gun and ordered (and installed) some wall stickers that read "In Amor Audentia". Now I have to try and squeak an "e" in...

[Iohannes Aurum]

Take duct tape and shape it as an "e" and place after "amor," such that the case is correct.

[Matthaeus]

I think that would look rather silly and disgraceful, John.

[Damoetas]

Mihi quidem ludere videtur; haud scio an tu idem facias!

I think he was joking; maybe you're doing the same!

[Iohannes Aurum]

It was just a joke.

[vangenne]

I tried the duct tape, now there's a big sticky mess!

I will try to order just the "e", I think I have room to sneak it in. Bad grammar angers me!