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From: "August de Man" <>
Subject: Re: Codex Heraldicum: Latin
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:24:35 +0200
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> Someone could be homo heraldicus or homo grammaticus
> but a thing couldn't be -us but -um.

You are wrong.
A thing can be anything, masculin, feminin or neutre
(stilus M = pen, mensa F = table, donum N = gift), like a thing
can be masculin or feminin in italian (il codice M, la casa F).
Normally words ending in -s or -x are feminin, but "codex"
is an exception, it is masculin, so you have to use:
"codex heraldicus".
About "heraldicus" you are right, it is no classical word but it
is used in later Latin.

AdM

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