From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Mar 3 17:53: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from relay4.inwind.it (relay4.inwind.it [212.141.53.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A6837B71A for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 17:53:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartequi@inwind.it) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (62.98.152.245) by relay4.inwind.it (5.1.056) id 3A88018C0033F61C; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 02:52:24 +0100 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 01:56:14 GMT Message-ID: <20010304.1561400@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: OT: the word "conpectus" (was Re: security conspectus) To: "Mari =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sepp=E4?=" Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , doc@freebsd.org References: <200102281245.OAA17816@beta.hut.fi> <20010301170150.F6809@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <200103020244.EAA18831@beta.hut.fi> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 3/2/01, 3:44:56 AM, "Mari Sepp=E4" wrote regarding R= e: security conspectus: > > We will happily accept conspecti, yes. > Ha, so that's the plural. I am afraid this is not quite correct. Conspectus, us, m. (cf conspicio; conspicio < specio). It belongs not to the second declension (pl. nom. ending in -i), but to the fourth (ie pl. nom. ending in -us, but u is long here). In Latin, the word has both active and passive senses; it has concrete meanings as well as figurative ones. The core sense is (approximately) "notice", "look". Examples of figurative senses (relevant to... FreeBSD Conspectus): in hoc conspectu (viz "consideration", or rather "study") et cognitione naturae, Cicero; aliquid ponere paene in conspectu animi, Cicero (~ "as if before the eyes of one's mind" if I may say so in English). Another (particular) figurative meaning, related to the first, is ~ survey ;-) Incidentally, "specio" is related to "species" (cf Greek "idea" and (v)id (v)eidon) and "spectrum" (cf Greek "eidolon", image). Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message