"Responsum"
"A Response"

[This is a response to what has been written at the Disputatio:Planetulus page at Vicipaedia.]

I am going to dispute it once more, but this time with feeling.

• I think it is very strange that you all were so quick to change Planetula to Planetulus after finding a single source on Google Books. Sure, you can find various ( Read more... )

"Ficula an Ficulus?"
"Ficula or Ficulus?"

As I mentioned in my previous posts, many (if not most) modern dictionaries show the diminutive of ficus (feminine) as ficula. I also pointed out that this particular form is problematic because the passage that is cited with this form (from Plautus' Stichus) actually shows this:

nucibus, fabulis, ficulis ( Read more... )

"Substantivalia, Non Adiectivalia"
"Substantival, Not Adiectival"

Here is another post about the gender and termination of Latin diminutives!

I noticed this in the Derivation of Adjectives section of Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar:

243. Diminutive Adjectives are usually confined to one gender, that of the primitive, and are used as ( Read more... )

"Cur Scurrula, Non Scurrulus?"
"Why Scurrula, Not Scurrulus?"

Someone may (and should) ask, "Putting aside DGT and GTR for a moment, why should we think that the form scurrula (a masculine word) is a more cogent diminutive form of scurrla (a masculine word) than scurrulusI believe that this is a legitimate question. It seems to me that I have not ( Read more... )

"De Figuris Plantulus et Planetula! Iterum!"
"About the Forms Plantulus and Planetula! Again!"

In my long De Figuris Plantulus et Planetula post, I talk about the problems that arise in the creation of nounal diminutives from nounal primitives having genders and terminations that do not seem to match up according to the common assigment. The ( Read more... )

"De Figuris Plantulus et Planetula"
"About the Forms Plantulus and Planetula"

A few years ago, several contributors over at Vicipaedia, the Latin Wikipedia, were trying to decide on a diminutive Latin form of planeta, "planet," in order to render the English term dwarf planet into Latin.

Planeta is a a masculine, first-declension word with a ( Read more... )

"Versio Nova Documenti Tutorialis Formationis Verborum Latinorum"
"A New Version of a Latin Word Formation Tutorial"

This one:

The Formation of Latin Diminutives of Nouns and Adjectives

The sections are now numbered!

"Versio Nova Documenti Tutorialis Formationis Verborum Latinorum"
"A New Version of a Latin Word Formation Tutorial"

Right here:

The Formation of Latin Diminutives of Nouns and Adjectives

"Nova Versio Perscriptionis Veteris"
"A New Version of an Old Post"

Here:

Terminationes et Genera Verborum Substantivorum Diminutivorum et Verborum Primitivorum

Excellent!

"Versiones Novae Duorum Documentorum Tutorialium Formationis Verborum Latinorum"
"New Versions of Two Latin Word Formation Tutorials"

Right here:

• The Formation of Latin Diminutives of Nouns and Adjectives
  
  
• Latin Stems and Latin Suffixes Beginning with Vowels