How would you spell INVICTUS using the Greek alphabet while keeping the original Latin pronunciation?
Saturday, August 28th, 2010 at
11:01 pm
I'm not looking for a Greek translation of the Latin word, just a graphical representation of what it would look like using the Greek alphabet while keeping the Latin pronunciation: in-vik-tuhs.
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Actually, you can’t reproduce that word exactly in classic Greek (mitch’s answer is in modern Greek), because classic Greek didn’t have a sound that exactly corresponded to the Latin v–which was pronounced as w. (Nor did Greek have a v sound.) Here’s as close as you can get: iota, nu, upsilon, kappa, tau, omicron, upsilon, sigma. (Sorry I can’t type the Greek letters. If there’s a way to do it on this program, I don’t know it.)
However, there seems to have been a letter representing the consonant w sound in very early Greek–before Homer. It was called a digamma, and it looked like a capital F. Incidentally, the lower-case Greek letters are a modern invention, so I recommend writing or typing the word in all caps anyway. This would look pretty close: INYIKTOYS or INFIKTOYS, but the capital sigma didn’t look like our S. (See Mitch’s answer.)
ΙΝΒΙΚΤΟΥΣ (Ινβικτους, ινβικτους)
Β = V
ΟΥ = Uh
ν = n
ς = final position s (normally σ)