atw: Re: SEC: UNCLASS Corrigendum and peccavi

  • From: Tim Gaden <gaden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:10:31 +1000

Hmmm...  time for a new dictionary.  peccavi is the 1st person  
singular perfect indicative active form of the first conjugation  
verb, "pecco", I sin.  It means "I sinned" or "I have sinned" and is  
thus a very clever kind of self-knowing typo. Nice one!

peccatum, -i is the noun.


On 15/06/2005, at 12:07 PM, Steve Hudson wrote:

> PS Now some Latin scholar will doubtless correct my subject line!  
> (But my
> dictionary did say that 'peccavi' was a noun!)
>

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