Retronaut has a gallery of eight representations of snowballs and snowball fights in Medieval art. The image above (cropped) is attributed to Tacuinum Sanitatis (c. 1390-1400).
*the title is how Google Translate renders "snowball fight" into Latin. I suspect it's wrong, but haven't come up with a correct term yet. Someone out there can probably come up with a better one.
Via Neatorama.
By separating the compound word and using Google Translate on each word individually....
ReplyDeletenix sphera compugno
You may say "Pugnicula pilarum nivearum".
ReplyDelete"Pugnicula" is a little fight. "Pilarum" is the genitive form of "pila", a ball to play games, and the adjective "niveus, a, um" means snowy (or besnowed ?).
From Belgium,
Alexis.
Viburnum is a botanical name for a snowball plant and 'pugnacious' means someone prone to fighting... I could get to an approximation of the meaning from the Latin (but I'm definitely not commenting as to its correctness here).
ReplyDelete