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Muppets most wanted is the 12th Muppet film to be released. Here is a list of all 12 films. 1. The Muppet Movie (1979) 2. The Great Muppet Caper (1981) 3. The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) 4. Muppet Vision 3D (only viewable at Disney Hollywood Studios (Formerly Disney MGM Studios) and Disney California Adventure in California.) 5. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) 6. Muppet Treasure Island (1996) 7. Muppets From Outer Space (1999) 8. Kermit's Swamp Years (2002) 9. It's a very merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002) 10. Muppets Wizard of Oz (2005) 11. The Muppets (2011) 12. Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

The phrase "LEMUR SINT SPLENDIDA" is written twice along the coin's circumference. The language is Latin and can be translated as "The Magnificent Lemur" or "The Splendid Lemur." However, Dominic may have used the wrong Latin word to describe himself as "splendida" describes how something is bright in color, not its greatness of skill.

# # # The above translation is wrong. Here is an explanation with a more accurate translation:

The inscription on the coin reads:

LEMUR. SINT. SPLENDIDA

written twice around the image of a lemur, an animal species that is endemic to Madagascar.

It's indeed meant to be Latin, but it cannot mean "The Splendid Lemur", because the words LEMUR and SPLENDIDA don't match with each other grammatically, and it would also leave the word SINT untranslated.

The proper translation of the inscription is something like "Toward Lemurs Be Glittery Things!". In this context, "glittery things" naturally alludes to shiny coins, but it could also refer to other bright, preferably silver-colored, items that are of value.

A word-for-word analysis:

• The Latin word SINT is a verb; it's the 3rd person plural form of "to be", but in the so-called "subjunctive" mood. The subjunctive mood in Latin refers to a sentence that expresses a hypothetical situation or a wish. So the Latin word SINT means "May (they) be..." or "Let (they) be...".

• SPLENDIDA means "splendid, bright, glittering", but it's referring to either a singular word of feminine grammatical gender, or a plural word of neuter grammatical gender. Since the verb SINT is plural, SPLENDIDA is most likely the verb's plural subject: "glittering things".

• In classical Latin, LEMURES only exists as a plural word, and means "ghosts" or "spirits of the restless dead". But this word is of masculine grammatical gender, so it cannot be directly matched to SPLENDIDA. In scientifc Latin, LEMUR(ES) is the scientific name for the animal known in English as "lemur(s)". The coin inscription reads "LEMUR." (notice the period at the end), which appears to be an abbreviation; it's probably short for LEMURIBUS , which means "for/to lemurs" (or "for/to ghosts").

So putting all these pieces of information together, the inscription is meant to read "LEMURIBUS SINT SPLENDIDA" and so the most likely and sensible translation we get is: "May glittering things be for lemurs!" (or "Let shiny stuff be for ghosts of the restless dead!").

Two additional remarks:

• A related Latin word LEMURIA (or LEMURALIA) refers to a yearly festival in ancient Rome for the exorcism of ghosts of the restless dead. This word is a plural, and of neuter grammatical gender, so technically the inscription could be read as "LEMURALIA SINT SPLENDIDA", meaning "Let the Festival of Ghosts be shiny!". But this translation doesn't really appear to be relevant to the context of the coins in this movie.
• There's also a period after SINT, but there doesn't appear to exist a Latin word that could be abbreviated to "SINT." The only candidate word in the Latin language would be some reference to SINTII, which is the Latinization of a Greek word that describes a rather unknown people living in Macedonia; their modern English name is "Sintians". But this doesn't have any direct relation to lemurs, coins or shiny things.

Apart from the Theatrical Version, the Blu-ray also features an Extended Cut with almost 12 more minutes of the Muppets.