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I need the following phrases translated into Latin for the Clovenshield ballista crew banner I designing…
“Straight through the heart”
“Your pain is our comedy”

Thank you in advance....

Rectus per heart.
Your poena est nostrum adveho.

Protinus cor
Noster dolor comoedia

Your pain is our comedy:

noster dolor comoedia is 'our pain is a comedy'

I would personally do:
dolores vestri (sunt) comoedia nostra

dolores is 'pains' (the word is typically used in the plural, not the singular dolor)
vestri is 'your' (plural - if you wanted the singular, it would be tui)
comoedia is 'a comedy'
nostra is 'our' (the ending has to match the gender of comoedia, so it's -ra instead of -er)
sunt is 'are.' It's not strictly necessary for the meaning of the sentence, so you can include or omit it at your preference.

Straight through the heart:

I'm not sure about protinus for 'straight through.' Lewis and Short defines it as 'in front of, continuously, immediately, directly' (etc). http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/tex ... 99.04.0059

Personally, I would use one of these two participles:
perfodiens - piercing through, digging through, transfixing
transfigens - thrusting or piercing through, to transpiercing, transfixing a thing or a person

perfodiens cor - 'digging through the heart,' 'piercing through the heart'
transfigens cor - 'transfixing the heart'

Heath B fraychef wrote:Rectus per heart.
Your poena est nostrum adveho.

Dude, don't do that.

Your pain is our comedy, or your pain (to us or in our opinion) is comedy
voster dolor nobis comedia est

straight through the heart
conjectimus (or we shoot) protinus per corti

Do these renderings capture the intentions of your ballista crew, Roak?

Those have a lot of typos, and I'm not convinced that the word choices are very good.

The first should be: vester dolor nobis comeodia est (voster is an atypical spelling that's probably not ideal, and you left out an o from comeodia, unless there's an alternate medieval spelling that's not in any of my dictionaries). I would still personally suggest the plural of dolor (dolores), as it's not typically used in the singular like that.

For conjectimus, did you mean conicimus, we throw or hurl? Lewis and Short has no entry for coniectio. Did you mix up the past participle with the present indicative? You also need to use the accusative case with per, and you misspelled heart. It should be: conicimus protinus per cordem. I'm also still not convinced that protinus is a good word for 'straight,' as it means forward, continuously, or onward.

Alric of Drentha wrote:Those have a lot of typos, and I'm not convinced that the word choices are very good.

The first should be: vester dolor nobis comeodia est (voster is an atypical spelling that's probably not ideal, and you left out an o from comeodia, unless there's an alternate medieval spelling that's not in any of my dictionaries). I would still personally suggest the plural of dolor (dolores), as it's not typically used in the singular like that.

For conjectimus, did you mean conicimus, we throw or hurl? Lewis and Short has no entry for coniectio. Did you mix up the past participle with the present indicative? You also need to use the accusative case with per, and you misspelled heart. It should be: conicimus protinus per cordem. I'm also still not convinced that protinus is a good word for 'straight,' as it means forward, continuously, or onward.

You know, any guy that forgets to put the indirect object in the dative has about zero cred as far as Latin goes. Thanks so much for the lesson though.

I think you're mistaking my possessive feminine adjective nostra (modifying comoedia) for your dative pronoun nobis. I didn't use an indirect object, as the original sentence didn't call for one.

Reading back through what I wrote above, however, I did make a stupid typo further down. I left cor in the nominative in my second sentence. 'Straight through the heart' is actually:

perfodiens cordem, or
transfigens cordem