Does any bought know what this saying means I cant find it any ware if u do fuger it out please email me and let me know thanks.

nos patra tutus vos

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Do you have any context?
It's Latin...but butchered Latin....

Something about keeping your father safe, or your father keeping you safe....but the grammar/word usage is wrong.
From talking with some of the Linguists and Linguiphiles I work with the closest we came up with is:

"Our Father keep you safe."


nos: Us, we, our
Patre: (Pater Patris): Father
Tutus: (tutis): protected, safe, secure
Vos: you

It does seem to be a mix of maybe French and Latin...maybe a saying that was remembered and passed-down over time? Sort of an old-fashioned type of "Spanglish," ...call it "Fratin."

GM
I'm thinking some bastardized cajun version...that's what it sounds like.
There's a lot of mis-remembered French in New England too...New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine especially among the second- and third-generation Americans of French-Canadian descent. You know places where family names like "Ouellette" out-number "Smith" in the phonebook, but nobody speaks French anymore.
Hey I checked the phone book, looks like more Bouchers then Ouellettes. I think the translation is "Our Father keep us safe."
Sounds like we all get about the same general idea of the phrase. I still bet Bouchers and Ouellettes outnumber Smiths up there!

GM
Pretty close but I think Brewers outnumber everybody!
Thank you All

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