hominus

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

hominus

  1. (Old Latin, rare) genitive singular of homo
    • 111 BCE, CIL 1.00585:[1]
      est ab eo quoius eius agri locei hominus privati
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

This form shows the rare genitive singular ending -us instead of the standard Classical Latin ending -is.

References

  1. ^ Spevak, Olga (2022), Nominalization in Latin, Oxford University Press, page 43: “Remarkable for its complexity is the instance in the Agrarian law (CIL I 585, 1. 63, from 111 BC): AB EO QUOIUS EIUS AGRI LOCEI HOMINUS PRIVATI VENDITIO FUIT 'by the one who sold, as a private individual, that land or piece of land'; see § 6.1.2, example (17) for discussion.”
  • Coleman, Robert (1990), “Dialectal Variation in Republican Latin, with Special Reference to Praenestine”, in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society‎[1], number 36 (216) (quotation in English; overall work in English), →ISSN, page 8
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