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In message >
Mike Tommasi > wrote:

> Opus = nominative case
> Vinum = nominative case

> It makes no sense. "work wine". Means nothing. You cannot just take
> latin words and combine them in the nominative, latin does not work that
> way. It works like german or russian, you need to put the words into an
> appropriate case. Think of a well known phrase meaning "there is truth
> in wine" - in Latin you say "in vino veritas". Not "veritas vinum".

> Had you put the second word in the genitive, OpusVini, then it would
> have meant "work of wine", it still makes little sense, wine does not work.

> If you meant "work about wine", which I assume you did, then wine would
> need to be in the ablative and take "de" as preposition. OpusDeVino.
> That would have made sense. Even better, style would require you to
> invert the words, appropriately stressing the "about wine" part, so
> "DeVinoOpus".


> wrote:
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Yes - that title would have earned at least six of the best from any
Latin master I ever had the fortune to meet - insert "mis" or "good "
before fortune as you prefer.


Tim Hartley

Reminds me of The Life of Brian

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:12:11 +0200, Mike Tommasi >
wrote:

>Opus = nominative case
>Vinum = nominative case
>
>It makes no sense. "work wine". Means nothing. You cannot just take
>latin words and combine them in the nominative, latin does not work that
>way. It works like german or russian, you need to put the words into an
>appropriate case. Think of a well known phrase meaning "there is truth
>in wine" - in Latin you say "in vino veritas". Not "veritas vinum".
>
>Had you put the second word in the genitive, OpusVini, then it would
>have meant "work of wine", it still makes little sense, wine does not work.
>
>If you meant "work about wine", which I assume you did, then wine would
>need to be in the ablative and take "de" as preposition. OpusDeVino.
>That would have made sense. Even better, style would require you to
>invert the words, appropriately stressing the "about wine" part, so
>"DeVinoOpus".
>
>
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>>
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>>
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