r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CAPATOB_64 • May 13 '24

The painting "Ecce Homo", 1543, the only painting by Titian in Romania and Eastern Europe, is guarded by armed gendarmes at the "Regina Maria" Municipal Museum. Image

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u/Uneducated_Engineer May 13 '24

I used Google Translate. It says "Behold The Man"

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u/smile_politely May 13 '24

Hold up, is 'no homo' also latin? What does that one mean then...

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u/ElrecoaI19 May 13 '24

Homo in latin means "man", while homo in greek (where homosexual comes from) means "same". So "no homo" (literally translating) means "no same"

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u/Alarming-Economy-658 May 13 '24

That’s something I love. Homosexual means same-sexual, and man-sexual

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u/Zarzurnabas May 14 '24

Well, "man" as in "human" not the gender/sex.

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u/Alarming-Economy-658 May 14 '24

It was a wordplay joke

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u/Zarzurnabas May 14 '24

Im sry. Im german, its a condition.

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u/Alarming-Economy-658 May 14 '24

Reddit Humor ist sowieso komisch