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Old 12-30-2004, 10:12 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Hi, Dman

You are right, "to fight to the finish" is one of the possible translations of DECERTO, but take care that this word can be two different things:

- The way to enunciate the verb in Latin, equivalent to English "to ..."
- More properly, the first singular person of present: "I fight to the finish"

The choice depends on the concrete context.

The spelling in classical Latin is DEKERTO, with the accent on the second syllabe and the sound of both E as in THE.

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