User talk:Flamen pluvialis

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Ultimateria (talk) 01:49, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Creating new entries: edit summary

Hi. Better to leave the edit summary blank for new entries: it gets auto-filled with a snippet, more helpful. Equinox ◑ 23:36, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

You are right. Will do. Flamen pluvialis (talk) 23:44, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

efflictim

Hi there. Why remove the mention of the PPP from the etymology? It's not strictly necessary from the standpoint of a Latin expert, but it helps those without a deep understanding of Latin understand where the -ct- comes from in this instance. We should try and avoid making our coverage of Latin an "ivory tower" meaningful to experts only. This, that and the other (talk) 00:54, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

I understand your view. I just want to avoid stating things that are wrong from a scientific standpoint. And if you look at the other lemmata that contain the -tim-suffix you will note that most of do without mention of the PPP, thus, leaving it here would be sort of an inconsistency. Flamen pluvialis (talk) 01:17, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Can you tell me more about what you mean by "wrong from a scientific standpoint"? This, that and the other (talk) 02:48, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

If I compose "efflīctus" and "-tim" the way we usually do it here, the result is not efflīctim, but *efflīxim or maybe *efflīctitim, both of which do not exist.

The PPP was not involved in the formation of efflīctim, rather they happen to share the same stem minus their actual stem vowel (PPP o, -ti-Derivation i). If you wanted to derive efflīctim from efflīctus as, let's say, a variant of *efflīctē, you would have to put -im as the suffix, not -tim. Flamen pluvialis (talk) 04:24, 10 August 2023 (UTC)