Talk:cacoethes
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Latin[edit]
- As for ancient Latin, dictionaries give the plural cacoethe (not cacoetha), but the plural could often be mentioning-y.
- As for New Latin, cacoethes could also be an adjectives and it could have a masculine form and neuter plurals cacoethe, cacoethia and cacotha.
- In the given example with "ad ulcera cacoëthe" it could be an adjective meaning "to malignant ulcers".
- 1 has "Cacoethes morbus ....", "Cacoethes ulcus ...", "ad Cacoethes nomas", "ad Cacoethe ulcera ..." where cacothes could be masc. sing., neuter sing. and fem. acc. plur.
- 2 with "... ulcera cacoethae ..." could mistreat cacoethes as first declension noun and mean the "ulcers of the malignant disease"
- 3 with "ulcera cacoethia"