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Equality

02:10 Oct 13, 2008
English to Latin translations [Non-PRO]
Social Sciences - Human Resources
English term or phrase: Equality
this word describes men and women are created equal.
Ashley


Summary of answers provided
5No such word in Latin
Joseph Brazauskas
3 +1aequalitas [aequalitat-]
ivo abdman


  

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equality
aequalitas [aequalitat-]


Explanation:
aequalitas
N F
evenness; equality (of age/status/merit/distribution)| uniformity| symmetry

http://www.babylon.com/definition/aequalitas/English

http://www.google.com/search?q=aequalitat



ivo abdman
Indonesia
Local time: 22:54
Native speaker of: Native in IndonesianIndonesian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Joseph Brazauskas: But the Romans did not believe that all men and women are created equal. That idea arose only during the Enlightenment and did not obtain even in the USA until the past few decades.
8 hrs
  -> I think you have fault logic of thinking, It's only term to describe what happen abroad, it's a possibility. Also refer to LUIS ANTONIO DE LARRAURI
agree  Luis Antonio de Larrauri: aequalitas-atis. The idea is some centuries earlier, since Christianity (Jesus treatment of women, and theoretically in St Paul's Gal 3 28). Even though Romans did not believe women and men are equal, the word can be perfectly applied to that idea.
12 hrs
  -> Thanks
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
equality
No such word in Latin


Explanation:
Classical Latin has no such word because the Romans and the later Mediaeval European peoples who employed their language entertained no such concept as the equality of all men and women, or even the equality of all men.

Pythagoras, Plato (in his Republic) and a few other ancient philosophers posited, theoretically at least, the equality of the sexes, and Seneca Jr.. in one of his Epistles to Lucilius, eloquently inisisted on the moral (but not legal) equality of slaves and free men. There were a few lone voices during the later Middle Ages and early modern times, but this notion did not begin to attract serious attention until the 18th century, and has become a reality, by no means everywhere, only in the 20th.

Joseph Brazauskas
United States
Local time: 11:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  ivo abdman: Totally I agree with the reference, but I think you have fault logic of thinking, It's only term to describe what happen abroad, it's a possibility. Also refer to LUIS ANTONIO DE LARRAURI
1 day 16 hrs
  -> I don't see it as a matter of thought, logical or other, but as a matter of usage. And in Latin--at least in good Latin--the term 'aequalitas' does NOT bear this connotation.
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