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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:48 pm
If I may, quingena, the adjective, should agree with diva, the noun. Both are feminine: singular - diva quingena, plural - divae quingenae.
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:32 pm
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:13 pm
Oops. I didn't read the entry carefully in Perseus' Lewis and Short, so I didn't notice it was an adjective instead of a noun. I was thinking "Goddess of Five Hundred" so I tried for the genetive of quingena, thinking it was a number/noun. Ah, Mr. Cullen would have had me writing a thousand lines or so!If I may, quingena, the adjective, should agree with diva, the noun. Both are feminine: singular - diva quingena, plural - divae quingenae.
Brazilian dude
Ah, well, Properare vastitiem facit! (Or should that be Properare vastare est?) Although it took me long enough to find quingena in the first place at Perseus.
Diva nuntius quingenae?
(Goddess of messages five hundred?)
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:55 pm
Diva nuntia quingena.
Brazilian dude
Brazilian dude
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:41 am
Mr. Cullen would be rapping his ruler on his desk at me. Again.Diva nuntia quingena.
Brazilian dude
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:34 am
As long as it's not on your head.
Brazilian dude
Brazilian dude
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:19 pm
No, that would have been Mr. Smith, in Algebra, with the sawed-off golf club, just a micrometer or so from your fingers on your desk.As long as it's not on your head.
Brazilian dude
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:47 pm
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:00 am
I have a very nice point on top of my head.As long as it's not on your head.
Brazilian dude
Katy
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:06 pm
Is it a bump?
Brazilian dude
Brazilian dude
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 2:00 pm
nope. it's pointed, LOL
BD, you take everything so literally....
Katy
BD, you take everything so literally....
Katy
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 5:01 pm
A hat?
Brazilian dude
Brazilian dude
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:27 am
no, BD having a pointed head means I'm goofy, or worse, Stupid, I'd prefer goofy tho'
Katy
Katy
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:10 am
Phrygian?
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:53 am
There was a cartoon in Mad Magazine long, long ago. First panel is a Ku Klux Klan rally with the members in their sheets and pointed hoods. Next panel shows them after the rally with thier hoods off, showing their pointed heads that matched contour of the hoods. So much for pointy-headed liberals!The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
liberty cap
NOUN: A brimless, limp, conical cap fitting snugly around the head and given to a slave in ancient Rome upon manumission. It was used as a symbol of liberty by the French revolutionaries and was also worn in the United States before 1800. Also called Phrygian cap.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
