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  • psy_wombats
  • Added: 12/31/2008 09:49 AM
  • Last updated: 01/11/2025 06:55 PM
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ThePrivateLifeOfMe
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01/13/2010 06:46 PM
Terra Nova? Isn't that standardized test for schools?
psy_wombats
13315
01/15/2010 01:02 PM
Ha, so it is. It's also the name of some old videogame... Story goes that we came up with the English phrase and then translate to Latin for the hell of it. Looks like quite a few people beat us to it.
JayEsz666
245
06/25/2010 11:41 AM
Terra Nova is the Latin term for the Sun (IF I remember my Latin correctly)

Terra means Earth (Hence Terra as the name of the female protagonist in FF6, she was the Earth Esper in the Jap version)

And Nova is a shortening of Stella Nova, which means star...

:-)
psy_wombats
13315
06/25/2010 03:09 PM
The team sprite artist is obsessed with Latin, and he assured me it was a (mostly) grammatically correct translation of "New Earth," heh. Well, he's full of BS half the time anyway. I should've known.
BD_Design
51
09/02/2010 09:14 AM
The Latin name for the sun is Sol. Terra Nova means "New Earth." Novus is the masculine and nova is the feminine for "new." Therefore, since terra is a feminine Latin word, nova is the correct pairing.
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