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[meltingevil]

my friend asked me to draw his family crest for a tattoo.

Comments

[marnanel]

"Quod est in actīs araldis noscet" = something like "what is in actions [araldis] comes to know"...? I can't find any evidence that "araldis" is a Latin word.

[malvino]

If Araldis is a family name, then could it be saying something along the lines of "by [our] actions we [the family Araldis] are known"?

[marnanel]

But noscet doesn't mean "we are known", it means "he/she/it knows". Of course it's possible that the person who designed this knew as little about Latin as they did about heraldry :)

[malvino]

one knows? I tend to give the benefit of the doubt, especially as most of these original crests (not saying this one is) were written before the printing press and grammar was codified and often contain mistakes (being 500 years or so after the decline of Latin, and preceeding its resurgence).