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To: Red Badger

R Doradus, My Doradus, Your Doradus, Their Doradus... :^)


5 posted on 09/13/2024 12:21:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

El Doradus.................


6 posted on 09/13/2024 12:29:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: SunkenCiv
The genitive form of the constellation's name is used with a star: Alpha Centauri, Beta Orionis, etc.

But -us is very unusual for a Latin genitive and appears actually to be a Greek genitive.

The constellation is Dorado in the nominative case.

Bennett's New Latin Grammar, 28, cites the Greek third-declension proper noun Dido as having a genitive form Didus. So that seems to be what's going on with Dorado/Doradus.

11 posted on 09/13/2024 4:39:20 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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