What Has Latin Done for Me Lately?

Monday, September 18, 2006

I've got a question... When putting words into the plural ablative case, if the word stem already ends in an "i", such as with "via," is the suffix still "-is"? In other words, does one end up with "viis" for "from the roads" or "in the roads"?
~Rachael Stern

1 Comments:

At 6:43 AM, Blogger Ex Pluribus Unum said...

Rachel-

Absolutely correct. You end up with two -ii-, one of which belongs to the stem, the other to the suffix.

EM.

 

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