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wellinghall ([personal profile] wellinghall) wrote2011-03-19 02:08 pm
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What does the Latin word "fratercula" mean, as in the Atlantic Puffin, fratercula articula?
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[personal profile] muninnhuginn 2011-03-19 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Little brother?

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2011-03-19 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, thanks - we had got as far as "brother".

[identity profile] thecatsamuel.livejournal.com 2011-03-19 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
fraterculus means little brother. I think it's medieval rather than classical but I don't have my big Latin dictionary here to check it for you.

[identity profile] thecatsamuel.livejournal.com 2011-03-19 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I lied. Just looked on Perseus and it's in Cicero and Juvenal. And it can be used talking to a friend as well as a relation.

This may be too much info, but Latin is entertaining.

Now I must do some actual work...

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2011-05-09 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
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[identity profile] jane-somebody.livejournal.com 2011-04-02 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
(pardon late response from passing stranger!) AKICOLJ - your guess is the way I read it myself, though I gather the preferred reading is "all knowledge is contained on LJ", but that bugs me because surely things are contained *in* something not on it. I don't know where the acronym first arose though, so I don't know if anyone has a definitive view.
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