For the Latin Experts

[moonshayde]

Okay, I give. I can't find this information.

Does anyone out there know the grammatically correct way to say "Holy Spirit" in Latin? Like Church Latin? I've seen it a half a dozen different ways on the net and I want the right one. It's for a story I'm trying to finish. I'd like to make the deadline. (It's original fic.) It's just really important for me to know how to say it properly.

It's just "Holy Spirit." Not in a sentence. Nothing. Just by itself.

Help?

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[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

I figured it had to do with case, but I've only just started learning Latin, so I don't know enough to tease out what case is what.

I've also seen a variant of Spirtius as Espritus. What is that, do you know?

[catspaw-sgjd.livejournal.com]

I'm not at all familiar with that word - I went to look it up in an online Latin dictionary, and got a nil return as well.

Where did you see it? Because it did cross my mind to wonder if this wasn't a mistranscription of what is heard in the Mass - 'et spiritu sancto'.

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

When I googled, I cam up with Espiritus as a name of a organization spondered by some Christian church or pastor. Plus, in my area we have a Portugese church called Espirito Santo. So, I didn't know if Espiritus was a Latin variant, from another language, or a misstake (as that happens often.)

I think in French it's Espirit something too. Man, my French is bad now.

[catspaw-sgjd.livejournal.com]

::nods:: I think it has to be from another language. And yes, esprit in French, which lends weight to that idea :-)

Definitely in Church Latin, the Spirit in the context of the Trinity is referred to as 'spiritus' - equally definitely, not 'animus', as someone suggested below: animus is more the soul, the spirit that moves *us* - a sense that's reflected in the English use of the word :-)