Skylet
Legionary
posted 30 December 2004 00:53 EDT (US)
Hello again everyone.Any of you guys here knows wad the letter spqr means??im quite interested to know.thx
toturi
Legionary
posted 30 December 2004 02:37
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5 / 13
Senatus Populusque Romanus. The Q is in Populusque.
eschae
Legionary
posted 30 December 2004 13:31
EDT (US)
9 / 13
Actually it's Romanum (genitive).
RedDawn
Legionary
posted 30 December 2004 21:46
EDT (US)
10 / 13
nope .
Senatus (5th declension, nominative)
Populusque (2nd decl. nom)
Romanus(5th declention genative)
guy6324
Legionary
posted 30 December 2004 22:43
EDT (US)
11 / 13
Romanus is a second declension adjective (here masculine nominative singular, agreeing with populus)that means roman or of Rome. The latin word for Rome is Roma, first declension.
eschae
Legionary
posted 31 December 2004 08:26
EDT (US)
13 / 13
Yeah, sorry, my mistake. I should've known that after 2 years without practicing Latin I would start writing nonsense.