11-02-2003, 09:42 PM
Hail Refrigerator,
I think in Latin it would be "Clerus". The ending "-us" in Latin usually indicates a noun of male gender, also I am not sure if there might be exceptions. In the female gender, there are, for example "pirata" ("-a" usually inidcating a noun of female gender) meaning "pirates", which at that time and through most of recorded history, I think, were males. Still, why not use another language a little creatively? I remember once having a barb named "Semerijin", a rather free use of Japanese, meaning "He who attacks". This compound of two words ("semeru" for the verb "attack" in composite form an "jin" for "human") is perfectly correct, I just don't know if it really exists in Japanese. Any native speakers on the Lounge?.
Greetings,
Lord_Olf
(who wonders why he just posted a (hopefully correct) correction (DUH?) of a Latin word and has still flunked his Latin course at University for the second time running)
I think in Latin it would be "Clerus". The ending "-us" in Latin usually indicates a noun of male gender, also I am not sure if there might be exceptions. In the female gender, there are, for example "pirata" ("-a" usually inidcating a noun of female gender) meaning "pirates", which at that time and through most of recorded history, I think, were males. Still, why not use another language a little creatively? I remember once having a barb named "Semerijin", a rather free use of Japanese, meaning "He who attacks". This compound of two words ("semeru" for the verb "attack" in composite form an "jin" for "human") is perfectly correct, I just don't know if it really exists in Japanese. Any native speakers on the Lounge?.
Greetings,
Lord_Olf
(who wonders why he just posted a (hopefully correct) correction (DUH?) of a Latin word and has still flunked his Latin course at University for the second time running)
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