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- From: zeus@aero.org (Dave Suess)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Life at Conception? [def'n of "fetus"]
- Date: 2 Sep 1992 20:25:23 GMT
- Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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- Distribution: usa
- Message-ID: <1837vjINN5fj@news.aero.org>
- References: <BtyquB.C9A@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- Summary: no, it's *not* Latin for "baby"
- Keywords: Latin, ignorance
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- In article <BtyquB.C9A@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>,
- ata@sage.cc.purdue.edu (ata boy) writes:
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- >It is interesting to note that "fetus" is the Latin word for "baby"
- >
- >ata
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- It is interesting to note how many folks blithely
- offer this misinformation as if it were true. Folks
- who have actually studied Latin will tell the real
- story: not only doesn't it mean "baby", it (in adjective
- form) refers to the pregnant *woman*, not her contents.
-
- The actual Latin definitions have been posted here before;
- I'll repeat them (from Cassell's Latin Dictionary) if "ata"
- is interested in something other than tracts.
- Dave Suess zeus@aerospace.aero.org
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