Translate my tattoo please?

[dmightygumbo]

I got this tattoo years ago while I was in college and I'm curious at to what it means or if it means anything at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[John18SP]

from top to bottom: 忒西勒婀日

 

To be honest, this sentence makes no sense to me. (or I just never read/heard anything like that before)

 

For the meaning of each character :

忒 could mean mistake (.noun, pron: tè), or excessive (.adjective, pron: tēi), or too much (.adjective, pron: tuī).

西 means the west

勒 means strangle or force someone to do something

婀(娜多姿) could be used to describe someone's graceful

日 means day, or the sun

 

What interest me is the pronunciation.

忒西勒婀 sounds like "Tesla", which makes it "Tesla day".  um...

 

Hope this helps!

 

Best wishes

[Lu]

Tei-xi-le-e-ri, that looks like it's (supposed to be) a transcription of something. What did you intend to have it say?

 

Searching for 忒西勒婀日 doesn't bring up anything, but I did see Penthesileia show up in the results (彭忒西勒亚), the Amazon queen who was killed by Achilles in the Trojan war. Not sure if that gets you any closer to the meaning of your tattoo.

 

Apart from the meaning, the look of the characters and their calligraphy is not great but also not disastrous. All characters are written correctly (assuming these are the characters you intended to get). I hope your name is Thesilear or something, then it might not be the worst tattoo.