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Quick Latin Translation, please help! Thanks....

 
 
Reply Tue 10 Aug, 2004 12:53 pm
Hi,
My boss has asked me to try to figure this out, for some odd reason. How would one say "My wife's wife" in Latin. We think that the translation for wife is "Uxor" but do not know how to work with the possesive. Thanks for any help.

Jon
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Lucifer
 
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Reply Tue 10 Aug, 2004 02:31 pm
Have you heard of declensions? The declension you are looking for is genitive. It's in both plural and singular. If you look in a Latin dictionary, the genitive singular form is always displayed after the nominative (in this case, "wife", "uxor"). "uxoris" is the singular nominative, and "uxorum" is plural. Also, "meus" is "my", and can also be declensed. So "My wife's wife" is "mei uxoris uxor".
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magicjon25
 
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Reply Tue 10 Aug, 2004 02:57 pm
Thanks!
Thank you, in the words of my boss: you da man (or women i guess)!
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