my name is

[Anonymous]

can anyone help me???? i can`t find the term " my name is" in latin!!! but i found mei voco but i dont know if thats the whole sentence? or if it should be something more to the sentence!! thats the only problem i`ve got at the moment!! can some one please help me with this one??

 

[Iynx]

Usually Nomen mihi [name] est . The order of the words is not at all fixed.

This Latin idiom may seem a little odd to an Anglophone-- one uses the dative mihi "to me", or "for me" not the pronomial adjective meum "my". But that's the way it is.

Example:

...hoc Nomen Mihi est in aeternum...

("...this is My Name forever..." or more literally, "...this is the Name for Me forever...")

(Exodus III:15)

So you would likely say: Nomen mihi Bonafide est.

OK?

 

[Cato]

Nomen mihi X est--with X in the nominative--is good Cicero. Curiously (at least to me), the name was often attracted into the dative by later authors, e.g. cui post Africano fuit cognomen - "whose cognomen afterwards was Africanus" (Livy XXV.2 - http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/livy/liv.25.shtml).

 

[Iynx]

Yet the nominative continued to be used long after:

Fuit homo missus a Deo, cui nomen erat Johannes.

John I: 6

And the genitive too is not infrequently encountered:

…Q. Metellus praetor, cui ex virtute Macedonici nomen inditum erat…


Velleius: Historiae Romanae I: 11


Personally I prefer the nominative in composition.