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Can somebody fluent in Latin please translate the words "The Diabolical Child" for me? Thanks for your time. x
 

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My Latin is a bit rusty (to say the least), but in addition to Will's good suggestion, I would offer:

infans scelestus

infans nefarius

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Diabolical has roots in ecclesiastical greek/latin, so you could just use that with the correct gender ending.

Child could be puer if male, or puella if female. Or as Corussa says, infans

puer diabolicus/puella diabolica
infans diabolicus
 

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Studied Latin for ten years, through university. I'd go with infans diabolicus, as suggested by Kallithrix.
 

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I've noticed that the Latin translator in Google sometimes makes some gruesome errors (not in this case), so it's always a good idea to do the reverse translation to check.
 

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I've noticed that the Latin translator in Google sometimes makes some gruesome errors (not in this case), so it's always a good idea to do the reverse translation to check.

I'm not sure even that will catch things like noun/adjective gender disagreement, and nor will it tell you which case you need to use...
 

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Thanks for the great response! I'll go with Infans Diabolicus, mwahaHAHAHahem :evil
 
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