Re: Inflecting Jesus Christ (was: Never violate a universal ...)

Hello,

> In any case, "Christus" is a plain 2nd declension noun, but "Jesus"
> is odd; it obviously isn't 2nd declension (o-stem) but doesn't look
> like 4th declension (u-stem) either, as the dat. is definitely "Jesu"
> and not "Jesui".  Maybe the Greek inflections were imported into Latin
> (just guessing here)?
They were. The closer to Classical Latin, the stronger the tendency to
employ Greek declensions for Greek names. Apparently the Vulgate
followed suit.

Pavel
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