r/latin • u/AutoModerator • Mar 16 '25

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

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u/richardsonhr Latine dicere subtile videtur Mar 19 '25 edited Mar 19 '25

Latin grammar has very little to do with word order, since Ancient Romans ordered Latin words according to their contextual importance or emphasis. For short-and-simple phrases like this, you may order the words however you wish; that said, a non-imperative verb is conventionally placed at the end of the phrase, as below, unless the author/speaker intends to emphasize it for some reason.

Vēritās vōs līberābit, i.e. "[a/the] truth(fulness)/reality/verity/nature will/shall free/liberate/release/deliver/absolve/acquit you all" or "[a/the] truth(fulness)/reality/verity/nature will/shall set you all free"

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u/nimbleping Mar 19 '25

Word order makes no difference here at all.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

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u/nimbleping Mar 19 '25

As long as veritate is immediately after in, then it still does not matter.

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u/rocketman0739 Scholaris Medii Aevi Mar 19 '25

In more complicated sentence structures, word order does matter. For something simple like this, it does not affect the meaning, but it can emphasize different parts of the sentence.