Latin, how to decline penis for carpe?

[Steven Eastman]

How do I decline penis for carpe as in carpe diem?

Steve

[Arne Adolfsen]

In article <sjeCKM...@netcom.com>
s...@netcom.com (Steven Eastman) writes:

> How do I decline penis for carpe as in carpe diem?

I *never* decline a penis no matter the occasion.
Why do you?

Arne

[Jess Anderson]

In article <2iphjm$o...@mizar.usc.edu>,
Arne Adolfsen <adol...@mizar.usc.edu> wrote:

This, of course, was well known, although the idle
spectator might have been slightly distracted by the
sonic boom as that remark went into the quotes file!

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[Arnold Zwicky]

if i understand the original query (which is not a sure thing), what
the poster was after was the latin translation of "seize the penis!",
i.e.
carpe penem

arnold, still biiig, but not a latinist

[Mary Ballard]

In <sjeCKM...@netcom.com> s...@netcom.com writes:

>
> How do I decline penis for carpe as in carpe diem?
>
> Steve

Time-warp?

[Arne Adolfsen]

In article <1994Feb3.0...@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
zwi...@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Arnold Zwicky) writes:

> if i understand the original query (which is not a sure thing), what
> the poster was after was the latin translation of "seize the penis!",
> i.e.
> carpe penem

Ouch!

> arnold, still biiig, but not a latinist

You did fine anyway, Arnoldus maaaaaximus.

Arne

[Dave Donaghy]

Steven Eastman (s...@netcom.com) wrote:

: How do I decline penis for carpe as in carpe diem?

: Steve

I could be wrong, but ...

penis, penis: (goes like arbor):

pens penes
penem penes
penis penium (?)
peni (?) penibus
pene penibus

So it'd be "carpe penem". Although I'm not convinced that the Latin for
"penis" is penis.

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[Mike Hennahane]

j...@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman) writes:
[the latin word for 'penis']

>The specific, taboo Latin word was "mentula" (feminine gender!).

i am glad to see that *someone* else here had to translate ovid's
"ars..". it was probably the only saving grace for latin, in my
opinion. otherwise, just how many times can you translate, "cicero,
get out of rome!" without puking...

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[Dmitrii Manin]

In article <CKoGF...@world.std.com>, j...@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman) writes:
o ma...@irix.bris.ac.uk (Dave Donaghy) writes:
o > Although I'm not convinced that the Latin for
o >"penis" is penis.
o
o The original meaning was "tail", but it already had the modern meaning
o in the classical period.
o
o The specific, taboo Latin word was "mentula" (feminine gender!).

Not only feminine, but also diminutive, as it appears! Nice ideas did
Romans have about the subject.

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- DM

[Arne Adolfsen]

In article <1994Feb10.1...@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>
ma...@sticky.rockefeller.edu (Dmitrii Manin) writes:

Except that the Romans were size queens. (Just look at
what Martial and Petronius have to say on the subject.)
This is completely unlike the Greeks who thought that
big equipment was unseemly and grotesque.

Arne

[Frank R.A.J. Maloney]

I've more often declined the carp than the penis.



But that doesn't mean I wouldn't invite some of you to share
my fine finan haddie.



(Except George Reilly, who claims he hates fish -- too many
fish-on-Fridays, no doubt.)

--
Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
"When in doubt, wee-wee on the premise." -- Molly Ivins