Latin Translation help please!?

Question

Hi everyone, I need a little help translating a phrase into latin. It's "Follow your heart." Two different websites gave me this "Insisto Vestri Pectus Pectoris" Any language experts know if this is correct?

Answer 1

The use of 'follow' in this context seems to me to be expressing 'yield to', 'obey'.

There is an idiomatic Latin phrase : animo obsequi : to follow one's inclinations.

Expressed as a command it would be : animo (tuo) obsequere {tuo is optional to convey 'your' as the sense should be clear from the rest of the phrase}



A similar idea might be conveyed by : ingenio tuo vive ~ live according to your own inclination/character

Answer 2

It is far from correct. It means approximately 'I, a heart, stand on (something) of your (plural) heart.'



All online translators I have come across are useless, even as dictionaries (I would never offer 'insisto' for follow). A much better translation would be something like 'sequere pectus', sequere being the singular imperative of the verb sequor, sequi, secutus sum (follow) and pectus the accusative of the word for heart (same as the nominative as pectus is neuter).



edit: In response to below, 'pectus' can mean heart in the sense of feeling or soul as in English, as well as the biological sense.

Answer 3

"Sequere cor tuum" or "Sequere animum tuum." Those web translations mean "I follow [or "stand on"] the chest of the chest of you [plural]." Actually, "pectus," like "cor," whose primary meaning is the heart as a physical organ, can also mean the seat of feelings. For the product of a translation site, that translation isn't quite awful, but it's still incorrect.

Answer 4

the 'heart' (pectus pectoris) was translated as a biological thing, not the subjective sense of it, although I dont know the alternative, probably 'core' would suit it better.