Comments | animate_mush: Gaudete Sunday

animate_mush

Gaudete Sunday

Dec 16, 2007 23:59

Gaudete! Gaudete omnia gentes! Er, vocative? whatever

Gaudete!

christianity, latin, holidays

Comments 4

devilfish5150 December 18 2007, 02:39:07 UTC

What does "gaudate" mean?

tungol December 19 2007, 03:46:34 UTC

Gaudete means "Rejoice!" (addressing multiple people).

tungol December 19 2007, 03:45:34 UTC

I believe I read in my Latin book the other day that in the plural, nominative and vocative are always the same. So I think you're okay on that count :-)

animate_mush December 21 2007, 19:10:09 UTC

YAY! Saved by degenerate morphology!!