Showing posts with label question. Show all posts
Showing posts with label question. Show all posts

Sunday, March 04, 2007

I also have one tiny question for someone who knows Latin (I know there is at least one of my loyal readers who does):

In a novel I'm reading, an old object is marked "I. Melchizidek fecit" (meaning, I presume, "Isaac Melchizidek made this."

What would be the form (if the form is different) for a woman having made something? Or is the -it ending having to do with the thing rather than the maker?

I'd like to know because I think it would be fun (and kind of easy) then to tag the things I've made; make up little labels with my name and then the proper from of the verb ("fecit" or whatever it may be). That idea just appeals to me, even though almost no one knows Latin any more.