Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Word of the Day

Today's latin word of the day comes from the Textkit vocabulary tool.  This is a great site you'll want to investigate further.  Now, for the word:


dominus, -i. m. lord or master


We see from this that dominus is second declension, masculine and means a lord or master.  -i is the genitive, most easily translated by putting 'of' in front of the word.  If we had seruus domini, we can translate that as 'the male slave of the lord/master'.  Not that seruus explicitly refers to a male slave, serua would be used to refer to a female one.

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