Re: Shake/trill

[Thomas Hinkle <hinkl_th@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4 Jun 1995, Douglas Tate wrote:

> In reply to various points by Mike Curtis
> 
> Thanks for the useful expansion.
> 
> Vibrati ...true or false.  If you take the Latin vibrato then as far as I
> remember from my dim and distant studies (it was still a live language in those
> days 8>)  ) the general pluralization was to change the end to 'i'.  I should
> add that I got my best school report ever for Latin, it said, quote ...'Not one
> isolated clue' ... unfortunately we are not allowed to put that sort of remark
> in reports nowadays!!
> 

Now, if I can think back to my Freshman latin 1 class (my god, that was
way back in...last year) Vibrato isn't a latin noun.  As I see it, you can
only have feminine, masculine, and nueter nouns in latin.  As a general
rule, these either end in US, masculine,  (e.g. Amicus), A,feminine,  (e.g.
Alumna), or,nueter, UM (memorandum).  The plurals would be i for
masculine, amicus to amici (said ee in classical latin, or said as I in
like in English Latin), ae, alumna to alumnae (said like i in like in
classical latin, like a in ate in English latin), or a, memorandum to
memoranda (only one way to say this one).  I've never heard of a noun
ending in O.  There are strange ones, like vir, res, and others.  But
usually wierd ones end with consanants.  Isn't vibrato italian?