Re: [tied] Vox auctoritae?

03-02-04 21:15, Peter P wrote:

> I often get curious about Latin words. And to me it doesn't look
> like 'auctoritae' is the nom pl. of 'auctoritas', the first being
> 1st decl and the second 3rd decl. So I had to look it up with this
> result;

We speak Classical Latin here, don't we? :-) (OK, we switch to Balkan
Latin quite often).

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?lang=la

Enter <auctorit> in the search box (no need to finish the word) and
count the hits. There will be one (aucto:ritâ:s, pl. aucto:rita:tes),
with, among others, the metonymic sense of "an authority".

Piotr