Although Classical Latin has a verb "renascor, renasci," meaning to be reborn, it has no corresponding noun--nor, apparantly, does Late Latin. (At least, no such word is listed in either Cassell's or Lewis and Short's dictionary. Since the usual word for "birth" is "ortus," a fourth-declension noun, you could coin the word "reortus" or use "novus ortus." Or, closer to the modern word, there's, "nascentia," an apparently uncommon word for birth that's listed in L%26amp;C but not in Cassell. You could add the appropriate prefix and say "renascentia," which would certainly LOOK right!
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You just gave the same answer I did, only with a whole lot of needless DRIVEL added, to make it seem better. Who said anything about classical Latin? Nobody.
This is exactly why I normally avoid the language section, like the plague.
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What's the Latin translation for the word Renaissance?I would use Renascentia. It's not Classical or Medieval, but obviously it couldn't have been used in that sense before the Renaissance. A few Enlightenment authors use it. An ortus compound would probably be "redortus" but I don't think I'd use that, since resurrectio has the same sense. The infinitive/gerund renasci, renascendi is used a fair bit and sometimes regeneratio.What's the Latin translation for the word Renaissance?
Renascentia
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The word renascentia has been around since the fourteenth or fifteenth century.
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