Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:38:00 +1000 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Giulio Botto <madecto@sangria.org.il> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Vinum/vino (was: A small note) Message-ID: <20020210153800.F4190@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020209164006.C17921@maelstrom.sangria.org.il>; from madecto@sangria.org.il on Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:40:06PM %2B0100 References: <20020209164006.C17921@maelstrom.sangria.org.il>
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On Saturday, 9 February 2002 at 16:40:06 +0100, Giulio Botto wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to compliment Robert Van Valzah for the great article found at > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/perl.html > > and I'd like to point out that the latin word "vino" (where the latin > adage is mentioned) is not the accusative Correct. "VINUM" is second declension neuter, so the accusative is "VINUM". I seem to have missed that. > but the ablative form of vinum. Well, more specifically it's the dative or ablative singular. As used in the saying "IN VINO VERITAS", you're right, it's being used as the ablative. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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