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To: ZULU

...I’m not commenting on your post, but I was a bit curious about your tagline, thinking that ‘nomini tuo’ should have been ‘nomino tuo’, representing second declension dative case, until I examined further and found that ‘nomen’ is, in fact, third declension, and as such, requires ‘i’ in the dative singlular...kudos on making me think a little bit harder this morning...


28 posted on 11/17/2008 6:16:20 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade

Its the motto of the
“Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon” aka Templars. I admire them. They did a good job until the western European Kiings cut the ground out from under them.

I get those declensions mixed up too - Nomen, Nominis, Nomini, etc.


29 posted on 11/17/2008 7:38:23 AM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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