Latin Scholars: What is the nominative plural of "Santorum"?

[jberryhill]

[Suich]

1. Santori. n/t

[jberryhill]

2. Is it the same form in the possessive

I know jack about Latin conjugation.

[Suich]

5. I have no idea.

Took Latin for 4 yrs. in high school a very long time ago. Hopefully, a REAL Latin Scholar can answer your question!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Santorum, with the -um suffix, is a neuter noun,

therefore the plural would be santora. If it were a masculine noun it would be santorus, plural santori; if feminine it would be santora, plural santorae.

But regardless, one is more than enough.

[Vince843]

4. More than one possibility.

Santorum could be second declension, singlular, accusative. Assuming it's a "masculine" noun in gender, the plural would be santori. Singular would be Santorus, just in case anybody was wondering.

Another possibility would be santorēs.

However normally we assume nouns are in the nominative case. In which case, santora is most correct.

[jberryhill]

8. Did Santorum come to us from the Greek?

[Vince843]

9. Beats me. Santorum's family is Italian.

It's a plausible Greek word though.

[beac]

6. I believe the word you are looking for is

"Jackasses."

[jberryhill]

10. You sir, are a true scholar

[beac]

16. Perhaps it will not surprise you that I have been told that the nominative plural of "beac" is

"Smartasses."

[Bolo Boffin]

7. Santorrhea? n/t

[GoneOffShore]

11. Douchebag?

[Xipe Totec]

12. Too formal

How about Douchebaguette...

[HopeHoops]

13. Fluids.

[tjwmason]

14. Depends whether Santorum is the nominative or not

The ending is plausible for three different situations:

Santorum as nominative singular, neuter, second declension noun - plural nominative is Santora

Santorum as accusative singular, masculine, second declension noun - plural nominative is Santori

Santorum as genitive plural, masculine or neuter, second declension noun - plural nominative is Santi (masculine) or Santa (neuter)

[JVS]

15. I'm guessing that the family name is a corruption of Sanctorum (pl. genitive= of the saints)

The dropping of the "c" from Sanctus/Sancta is easily found in modern Romance languages: San Diego, Santiago, Santa Maria, Santa Lucia)

[trackfan]

17. That's how I have always seen it,

whether that is the actual derivation or not; but when reading Latin, -orum so often signals a genitive plural that it's hard not to think of that.

[jberryhill]

19. Plural genitals?

Ricky's not going to like that.

[tjwmason]

21. That would be my guess too. nt

[bif]

18. Assholes?

[sakabatou]

20. Keep firing?

[krispos42]

22. .

[libodem]

23. Sanctimonous Douchebag

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