OT: graffitum

From:	caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:	Saturday, July 28, 2007, 14:15

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>Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> wrote:

>One by one the penguins are stealing my sanity
>-Graffitum spotted on a bridge in England
IIRC, we have borrowed the word "graffiti" from the Italian.  This
would make the singular "graffito."

"Graffitum" looks like a Latin 2nd declension neuter noun.  If this
were so, the plural would be "graffita."

Charlie

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