From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Feb 10 17:41: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (adsl-66-122-50-146.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [66.122.50.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE40B37B423 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 17:40:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) id g1A5eV404369 for doc@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 18:40:31 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:38:00 +1000 From: Greg Lehey To: Giulio Botto Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Vinum/vino (was: A small note) Message-ID: <20020210153800.F4190@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <20020209164006.C17921@maelstrom.sangria.org.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020209164006.C17921@maelstrom.sangria.org.il>; from madecto@sangria.org.il on Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:40:06PM +0100 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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