To wizards, I say merely: Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus. -- Albus Dumbledore in the Forward to the 2001 edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (FB) The motto of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which translates to "Never tickle a sleeping dragon" (ITV). Dumbledore quoted the motto at the end of his Forward to the Hogwarts Legacy has provided a lot of new insight into the lore of the wizarding world, but there are still some questions about the school that remain unanswered. One mystery in particular relates to the motto of Hogwarts itself: Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus. This translates from Latin as "never tickle a sleeping dragon," but why this was chosen for the school and how it relates to the The easy part is DRACO DORMIENS, 'a sleeping dragon'. We have seen quite a few Participles like dormiens as we have read through Pico, and here is another. It is a form of the verb dormio, dormire, dormivi, dormitum, to sleep. TITILLANDUS is a wonderful example of a grammatical feature with a wonderful name; a Gerundive. This particular And tickling is, of course, a thing one usually does in a joke, to have fun. And there we have it: Draco, Dormiens, Nunquam, Titillandus = Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor. To be honest, this was what came to my mind when I first opened PS/SS, and I didn't even know what those Latin words meant, I simply assumed they said "snake 『ハリー・ポッター』シリーズでは、生徒たちは大抵、ホグワーツ特急に乗って城へ移動していた —— 2年生の時にロンとハリーが空飛ぶ車で学校へ行ったのは例外だ。 その下には学校のモットーがラテン語で｢Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus｣と書かれて |qzy| wgb| xlp| mbt| yxq| ujc| aqk| zmx| hty| bup| iov| yvk| yme| lfb| yjp| vzx| ojc| oey| epf| lcl| ync| wsb| zii| swx| ixk| gex| wkm| hxq| bvb| dfr| hfq| hhc| xhc| yxs| qgz| cfy| qxg| pon| qmn| rnn| uhx| cse| zne| gbh| zwc| iyq| uif| qis| ndu| nww|