From panis@pacbell.net Mon Jun 17 19:32:48 2002 Received: from mailscan2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g5I2Wkw3026656 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:32:46 -0700 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan2.cac.washington.edu ; Mon Jun 17 19:32:45 2002 -0700 Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g5I2Wj8p008287 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:32:45 -0700 Received: from [192.168.0.4] ([63.198.176.35]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GXV00BVNR2KNE@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for classics@u.washington.edu; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:32:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:32:42 -0700 From: John McChesney-Young Subject: Latin Form Question for Cyclops In-reply-to: X-Sender: panis@postoffice.pacbell.net To: classics@u.washington.edu Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <009401c2163f$2b252300$fdb5a8c0@VRouter.com> <009401c2163f$2b252300$fdb5a8c0@VRouter.com> The full-sized _Oxford Latin Dictionary_ and the smaller version of it both list the genitive of Cyclops as Cyclopos, presumably following the Greek, and they don't list any alternate endings. None of the other Latin dictionaries I checked (L&S, Lewis' _Latin Dictionary for Schools_, Cassell's, Chambers Murray, New College, Collins Gem) offer any choices except a standard Latin third declension in -is. Unfortunately Ernout-Meillet and Walde-Hoffmann don't include it. A Google search of Cyclopos turns up no appropriate hits, and a search of the Latin texts of Perseus turns up nothing either. By a remarkable coincidence the single volume of the _TLL_ I own is the C supplement of names, and neither the forms nor the citations for Cyclops include any in -os. Is the OLD's genitive form simply a typographical error? If it weren't for the existence of other Greek genitive forms in Latin I'd assume so, but I thought I'd do one last check of the list's collective wisdom before regarding it as a mistake. John ******* John McChesney-Young ** panis@pacbell.net ** Berkeley, California, USA .