tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36100279.post3024194132919980664..comments2023-11-02T06:18:52.845-05:00Comments on Past Elder : What's A Septuagesima? Gesimatide 2012.Past Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10541968132598367551noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36100279.post-63261138302760018042012-02-04T02:21:45.487-06:002012-02-04T02:21:45.487-06:00I'm thinking I may agree with you. The word i...I'm thinking I may agree with you. The word is an adjective after all, not a noun.Terry Maherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17122266461403246084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36100279.post-38648181218600500012012-02-03T00:41:48.143-06:002012-02-03T00:41:48.143-06:00Thanks for all the good things here. One correctio...Thanks for all the good things here. One correction: the Latin -gesima. It is an ordinal ending supposedly descended from the PIE suffix *-kom-t-th, probably from the word for ten, *dkom(t), and is equivalent to our ending "-tieth," the -sima being a superlative suffix (cf. bellissima) added in the Latin stage, causing elision/assimilation of the -nt- and lengthening of the vowel. The normal form is -ginta, equivalent to our "-ty," e.g,. in Septuaginta, which simply means "Seventy." So there is no explicit idea of "days" in this ending at all, but it is tacitly understood, or else spelled out, e.g., "sexagesima dies."Matt Carver (Matthaeus Glyptes)https://www.blogger.com/profile/05089508591297052114noreply@blogger.com