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Latin Declensions (was Pround Mac26X owner)
Brian Whatcott wrote:
Scotty (SV) asked: what's Latin for ''POS that doesn't belong on the ocean''? Alan Gomes responded with finesse: "Pars excrementi, quae non oportet esse in mari." Horvath interjected in a scholarly way: Close! "Mare." Alan Gomes, somewhat miffed, contradicted in this way: Nope. The ablative for "sea" is "mari," not "mare." --AG So I looked it up..... ...from About.com: Latin nouns of the third declension (such as mare) here are the consonantal endings. The endings of the Third declension masculine or feminine/neuter are singular nominative -/- genitive -is/-is dative -i/-i accusative -em/- ablative -e/-e plural nominative -es/-a genitive -um/-um dative -ibus/-ibus accusative -es/-a ablative -ibus/-ibus Using rex, regis, m. (king), here is the paradigm: singular Nominative - rex Genitive - regis Dative - regi Accusative - regem Ablative - rege Locative regi or rege Vocative rex The facts speak in favor of Horvath, it appears for the ablative. Perhaps Gomes had in mind the locative? Brian Whatcott Altus OK Brian, I replied to the rest of this elsewhere. But I did not intend the locative. But if I had, it would still be "mari," since I think the locative follows the same endings as the dative, and the dative for mari is the same form as is the ablative for mari. Cheers, Alan |
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