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Adam
Adam
3:34 AM
What work is referenced in the entry for theurgia? It's Aug Civ. Dei, 10, 9, and 10
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Adam Augustine, De Civitate Dei.
At least that's what I would assume.
I don't know how it's structured: perhaps lines 9 and 10 of book 10? You've added an additional comma.
(At first I thought by 'work' you mean the orgia in the word itself!)
 
Adam
Adam
Ahh, ok!
I'm looking for words for magic, sorcery, etc
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
4:03 AM
@Adam That's a good word.
> magia
> devotio
magice
maleficium
veneficium
> fascinatio
For spell:
> cantamen
cantio
cantus
carmen
devotio
susurramen
vox Thessalia
vox sacra
Thessaly was considered a centre of sorcery.
> salivae arcanae "sorcery using saliva"
 
 
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Adam
Adam
2:28 PM
@Cerberus Interesting using arcana for that.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Adam Quite! I'm having trouble imagining the procedure.
 
Adam
Adam
2:43 PM
@Cerberus I guess I want to read that as "secret saliva"
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Adam Probably not a bad translation!
Saliva of mystery...
 
Adam
Adam
I learned of a second declension feminine ending in -us, yesterday: atomus
Wheelock covers the reverse with masculine nouns in the first declension, but I don't recall learning any feminine second declension.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
3:05 PM
@Adam Oh, I had no idea atomus was feminine!
Probably because it is an adjective modifying some omitted feminine Greek noun?
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Q: What categories of substantives of the second declension are feminine?

CerberusSome categories of substantive nouns are always feminine, even when they are of the second declension, such as trees. What other categories are there? And are there also many exocategorical examples? I don't think e.g. alvus (f.) fits into a category, or does it? Cf. uterus (m.).

noun gender second-declension
 
Adam
Adam
Ahh, I see certain specific tree names are second declension but feminine.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
I think almost all!
 
 
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Q: Origin of بطريق

UndefinedBehaviorI read here that the Arabic word بطريق (penguin) ultimately derives from Latin patricius (patrician), through Greek and Aramaic, but I couldn't find any explanation of how and why the shift in meaning happened, nor I could find if there is any cognate in other languages with the same meaning of "...

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Feeds
Feeds
9:46 PM
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Q: How much did Alfred the Great translate himself?

Rand al'ThorI just heard that Alfred the Great, the famous 9th-century king of Wessex who is sometimes said to be the first founder of "England" as a country, was also a translator of literature. Reading his Wikipedia page gives some mixed information: There were few "books of wisdom" written in English. Al...

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