From: m_iacomi
Message: 30631
Date: 2004-02-04
> 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".OK, I admit I was too hasty, "auctoritae" is rather a rare ancient