Pay your debt/s - Pay debt

Latin translation: solve aes alienum tuum (aera aliena tua) - solve aes alienum

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English term or phrase:Pay your debt/s - Pay debt
Latin translation:solve aes alienum tuum (aera aliena tua) - solve aes alienum
Entered by: Mattias Bergström

15:56 Oct 25, 2010
English to Latin translations [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial - Finance (general)
English term or phrase: Pay your debt/s - Pay debt
It's an expression used by a debt collection agency.
Mattias Bergström
Sweden
Local time: 00:55
solve aes alienum tuum (aera aliena tua) - solve aes alienum
Explanation:
solve aes alienum tuum = pay your debt
solve aera aliena tua = pay your debts
solve aes alienum = pay debt

These forms assume that the verb 'pay' is imperative and that you are addressing one individual. The following address two or more individuals.

solvite aes alienum vestrum = pay your debt
solvite aera aliena vestra = pay your debts
solvite aes alienum = pay debt

'Solve' means literally 'loosen', but is used metaphorically of discharging a debt. 'Aes alienum' means literally 'another's bronze', bronze being used for coinage at Rome before silver and gold, and still used during the late Republic and Empire for coins which were of very small value or adulterated.
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pay your debt/s - pay debt
solve aes alienum tuum (aera aliena tua) - solve aes alienum


Explanation:
solve aes alienum tuum = pay your debt
solve aera aliena tua = pay your debts
solve aes alienum = pay debt

These forms assume that the verb 'pay' is imperative and that you are addressing one individual. The following address two or more individuals.

solvite aes alienum vestrum = pay your debt
solvite aera aliena vestra = pay your debts
solvite aes alienum = pay debt

'Solve' means literally 'loosen', but is used metaphorically of discharging a debt. 'Aes alienum' means literally 'another's bronze', bronze being used for coinage at Rome before silver and gold, and still used during the late Republic and Empire for coins which were of very small value or adulterated.

Joseph Brazauskas
United States
Local time: 19:55
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