Currently, I'm using Míles Stélláris Básíleai to mean both The Empress' Star Marine Corps and its colloquial The Empress' Star Marines. Is Sómá Míles Stélláris Básíleai or Sómá Mílitáris Stélláris Básíleai a more accurate translation of the more formal name The Empress' Star Marine Corps?
The Empress' Star Marine Corps
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Not sure I've seen míles used for 'corps' (ie. a group of soldiers) like that.
sómá does not seem to be a Latin word. There is a Greek word σῶμα (short a) but it means 'body', not a group of soldiers.
You could always use the plural of míles? Or a word like cohors or legió?
Básílea is not, to my knowledge, a word either, although there was apparently a town called Basiléa (modern Basel). If you want a Latinised form of the Greek βασίλεια 'queen, princess', it would be basilía. I can't think of an actual Latin word for 'Empress'... Augusta seems to be used at Tac. Annals 34, Fronto ad amicós i.14?
sómá does not seem to be a Latin word. There is a Greek word σῶμα (short a) but it means 'body', not a group of soldiers.
You could always use the plural of míles? Or a word like cohors or legió?
Básílea is not, to my knowledge, a word either, although there was apparently a town called Basiléa (modern Basel). If you want a Latinised form of the Greek βασίλεια 'queen, princess', it would be basilía. I can't think of an actual Latin word for 'Empress'... Augusta seems to be used at Tac. Annals 34, Fronto ad amicós i.14?
Sóma can mean one of the following: body, heater, military unit (Corps), organization. Ptóma, on the other hand, means corpse. Pandorans lengthened the word-final <a> through compensatory lengthening. Thus, sóma --> sómá. I'm not using legió because a corps (20,000+) is larger than a legion (3,000-6,000; i.e. between a brigade and a division) in size.
Básíleia should have been Basíleiá as I misread the accent over the first <a> and forgot to lengthen the second one. Both it and sómá show the Greek influences on Pandoran.
Básíleia should have been Basíleiá as I misread the accent over the first <a> and forgot to lengthen the second one. Both it and sómá show the Greek influences on Pandoran.