Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 01:56:14 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: "Mari =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sepp=E4?=" <zarr@cc.hut.fi> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, doc@freebsd.org Subject: OT: the word "conpectus" (was Re: security conspectus) Message-ID: <20010304.1561400@bartequi.ottodomain.org> References: <200102281245.OAA17816@beta.hut.fi> <20010301170150.F6809@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <200103020244.EAA18831@beta.hut.fi>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 3/2/01, 3:44:56 AM, "Mari Sepp=E4" <zarr@cc.hut.fi> wrote regarding R= e: security conspectus: > > We will happily accept conspecti, yes. > Ha, so that's the plural. I am afraid this is not quite correct. Conspectus, us, m. (cf conspicio; conspicio < specio). It belongs not to the second declension (pl. nom. ending in -i), but to the fourth (ie pl. nom. ending in -us, but u is long here). In Latin, the word has both active and passive senses; it has concrete meanings as well as figurative ones. The core sense is (approximately) "notice", "look". Examples of figurative senses (relevant to... FreeBSD Conspectus): in hoc conspectu (viz "consideration", or rather "study") et cognitione naturae, Cicero; aliquid ponere paene in conspectu animi, Cicero (~ "as if before the eyes of one's mind" if I may say so in English). Another (particular) figurative meaning, related to the first, is ~ survey ;-) Incidentally, "specio" is related to "species" (cf Greek "idea" and (v)id (v)eidon) and "spectrum" (cf Greek "eidolon", image). Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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