User:WayneC/Ancient dictionary

This is a dictionary of all the Ancient language words to appear in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. Where a word's exact meaning is unknown, it relies on speculation and inference to attempt a definition. Some of the words below have only been spoken and not seen written, so their spellings may differ from those on other sites.

Accented letters serve to indicate primary stress where it differs from normal Latin stress, or where it's needed to communicate correct pronunciation.

Asterisks mark word forms which have not been directly attested, and which have been arrived at through speculation.

Sources

A
aberunt:	they were away abicierum:	to give up ad:		to (prep.) adventus:	approaching  *aedifus :	house (1) amacús:        friend áni:		are Anquiétas:	Ancients  *astrum :	star  *astrum porta :	Stargate (2) at:		Stargate Point of Origin Atlantis:	Atlantis asórdo:	help áveo:		be well

C
caelestis:	heavenly, relating to the sky (3) colonian:	(to) colony comdo:	       please cozar: 	leg cruvus: 	wrong, unusual

D
deductum:	taken away derentis:	insane/crazy desérdi:	wish/want dormáta:	sleep domavatus:	master domii:		? (4)

E
ego:    	I eetium: 	yes erat:		there was esse:		to be et:		and euge:		good, good job

F
falátus: 	ability farit:		finished fatum:		destiny ferox:		wild, unbridled, fierce fervidus:	boiling fron:		head

G
glacius:	ice

H
hic:		this

I
indeeo: 	need

L
lacún:		to make lost/hide (camouflage) laru:		Virgo (Stargate symbol) laudemur:	(subject?) praised lochus:		place, location

M
machinus:	machine motabílum:	past

N
nas:		Equuleus (Stargate symbol) navo:		new non: 		not nos:		us (variant?) nou:		we

O
o:	Centaurus (Stargate symbol)

P
perennial:	disaster populi:		people (pl.) potentia:	Zero Point Module proc:		Eridanus (Stargate symbol) putamus:	(we) clear up, settle proclarúsh:	lost in fire

Q
qua:		our? quam:		which quindozum:	fifteen

R
ruber:		red, hot (when used with sol)

S
separerunt:	(they) separated sh:		Canis Minor (Stargate symbol) sol:		sun subo:		under

T
ta:		Hydra (Stargate symbol) tanta:		? tempestate:	storm, period of time terra:		Earth táonas:	       Planet/sphre

U
ubán:		place/city ubi:		where ut:		?

V
veniunt:	(they?) came vestul:		uncertain videum:		legacy? vis:		[of?] (great) power vivendum:	living

Phrases
hic qua vidéum: 	       place of our legacy* perennial adventus:	approaching disaster áveo amacús:		'goodbye' (lit. be well, friend) nou áni Anquiétas:	we are (the) Ancients proclarúsh táonas:	lost in fire (is this Ancient?)

Hic qua videum
"It should be noted that I don't know all that much Latin grammar and syntax, so the below speculation might well be somewhat incorrect."

* Hic is the masculine singular pronoun "this", with one possible meaning (of space) being "this here".

Qua means "by which way, on which side, where", and videum is obviously related to videre, "to see". Alternatively, it could be related to qui, the third-person pronoun.

Noun endings on verb stems serve as participles, so videum would mean "seen" (although the Latin form is visum).

With videum meaning "seen", the –um (neuter) ending would refer to a thing. Hic qua videum would thus literally (according to this interpretation) mean "this here (place) by which (it is) seen". The "it" videum refers to would thus be the Ancients' Library, which is their legacy.

Alternately, videum in the Stargate universe might have come from videre in the sense of a visual legacy, referring to the visual presence of something as a legacy of its builders. It might also refer specifically to a visual legacy (hence its hypothetical etymology), as the four races' library was a visual construct (the lights in the head-grabber).

Thus, an alternative translation could be: "this [place] (of) our legacy".

1. *Aedifus
"Window of Opportunity" (406) gives aedifi as houses (on Daniel's blackboard). If aedifi is "houses", *aedifus would be "house" going by Latin grammar rules.

2. *Astriaportum
"Avalon, Part 2" (902) gives "astriaporta" as "stargates":

DANIEL It says that the Alterans named their new home "Avalon," and that they built many astriaporta.

MITCHELL Stargates?

DANIEL Yes.

If astriaporta is plural, *astriaportum would be singular going by Latin grammar rules.

3. Caelestis
Caelestis means "heavenly, coming from heaven, belonging to heaven". The translation "angry" (seen on Dr. Jackson's blackboard) in context probably refers to the periodic coronal mass ejections of P4X-639's sun, which was described as "red hot" and "boiling" in the text on the blackboard.

4. Domii
"Window of Opportunity" (406) gives sunt aedifi / aberunt domii ad vivendum ubi as "built houses/ for living in where the". Aedificare means "to build" in Latin, with "sunt aedifi" being a possible Ancient verb form. Aberunt means "they were away", and domii could mean houses (from domus). Ad vivendum appears to be a participle from "to live" meaning "to the living" or "for living", and ubi means "where". Thus a possible literal meaning is "they built (they were) away houses to living where" or "they built houses for living where they were away". This translation fits the idea of "their arrival on P4X-639", as Dr. Jackson described the subject of the portion of text this is from. "They built houses for living where they were away" seems to describe a colony or camp, which also fits.