Emerit?
Daniel Shore (NPR) just introduced someone (female) as "Dr. So-and-so, Professor Emerit of History....".Is this a new dodge on the male/female thing, or did he just misspeak?What would the correct...
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But it works for auctor -- auctrix... OK, it's crap. [note to self: learn to read English. Then have a go at Latin].
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I don't think there is a Latin feminine equivalent of professor. But all* will be revealed when I get my shiny, new, smelling-of-paper-rather-than-computer-plastic-fumes Lewis & Short. At a...
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The bored and Latinically literate among you might care to google the paradigm. There are lots of emerita out there, and emeritae often in the soothing form emeritae/i, and even emeritarum though...
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Yeah, dm, if you're going down that path, at least decline it right!! "Professor" yields "professrix".
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"Professor" yields "professrix"Or, since we got the word through the French professeur, maybe professess.
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Learning Latin with nix grammar's a tough call. A bit late, but I came up with professrix and thought it so 'orrible I bunged in the extra letters. Rong, rong, rong. Even professix would've been less...
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Quote:Masculines in -sor lack the feminine, except expulsor (expultrix) and tonsor (tonstrix).www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus/aides/allgre/allgre.236.html
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Ah, a Latin grammar that's useful on this point.Now what's the origin of the suffix in danseuse, masseuse, if not original Latin?
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Heard Roger Ebert yesterday in a review of the new Julia Roberts movie refer to a character as an "alumnus" of Wellesley. Tsk, tsk.(Note to furriners: Wellesley is a noted women's college.)
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Yes, there is a feminine form of Latin alumnus, alumna, but it isn't listed in SOED, whereas alumnus is. Has alumna been accepted into English mainstream usage? I've heard only of alumni (singular...
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Tho people carelessly call a female an "alumnus" on occasion, "alumna" and "alumnae" have long been accepted forms in the US. In fact, I'd be surprised if the Wellesley catalog used anything but**.I...
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It would be more usual to pronounce alumnae as "alumnee", I think.Of course, in Weipa they are called alumina.
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> It would be more usual to pronounce alumnae as "alumnee", I think.Yeah, but then you crash into the closer-to-the-Latin pronounciation for "alumni".
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> Alumnuses for male and female.Or either that or alums, one. (To close the circle)
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I don't get the "alumina" remark. Is this the same joke as I was about to make - "Is an alumnus in the US an aluminius in the UK?". If so, sorry for the postpunmantle!!Just FTR, my highschool...
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