Re: Fiat Lux

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 06:47:00PM +0000, Raymond Brown wrote:
> At 7:05 pm -0400 21/6/01, Roger Mills wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >"Fiat" is 3d sing, pres. subjunctive of a very peculiar verb-- it has active
> >conjugation, but passive meaning: 'to be made'.  (Likely the only such verb,
>
> Not quite, _ua:pula:re_ (active) means: 'to be beaten, to be flogged'; and
> there may be one or two others.
And <irruma:re>. In the fashion of older Latin-English dictionaries, I won't
actually define it here. :)

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Eric Christopherson | Rakko