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"Lupus non gratus" or "lupi non grati"
by ithkuil 5y ago
"Lupus non gratus" or "lupi non grati"
- slim 5y agoIt's never lupus
- ithkuil 5y agoWhat do you mean? EDIT: ah. A reference to Dr.House
- thaumasiotes 5y agoLupa isn't just an obvious extension of feminine gender to a usually masculine but living noun. It's well attested in the Latin record because of the myth of Romulus and Remus, who were suckled and raised by a lupa. Officially that was a she-wolf, though the theory was available even at the time that the lupa of the story referred to a whore.
- ithkuil 5y agoOk fine, then lupa non grata (singular) or lupae non gratae (plural) "Lupae non grata" just sounds wrong and agramarical, in the same sense as "people is happy" would to an native English speaker. Yes it's just a little sounds, just like the small difference between "are" and "is"