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newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "feline1973" <feline1@...> wrote:
>
> As I'm sure the boys would have learnt at Charterhouse school,
> Latin nouns ending in "-um" are usually 2nd declension neuter,
> and would change their ending to "-a" in the plural of the vocative case
> (which would be the case when yelling "HERECLEUM MANTIGAZZIANA!!" at them)
>
> "-i" is the genitive singular? Perhaps this was a subtle linguistic pun, using a Latin form of "grocer's apostrophe".
>
> Having said that, I doubt any word with a double z in it is authentic classical Latin to begin with!
>
> KILL ME!
Phew! thanks for making that (somewhat) clear. Glad I didn't write "Romanes Eunt Dommus."
Jim Bailey