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([personal profile] redbird Apr. 19th, 2005 02:01 pm)
Please, Habeant papam. He is not my leader.

Update: the current consensus appears to be "habent papem." Can anyone confirm that? (I got a C in my one semester of Latin, and [livejournal.com profile] cattitude isn't home to ask.)

From: [identity profile] bugsybanana.livejournal.com


Yes, it is habent. "Habeant papam" would be "May they have a pope." (Yeah, thanks a lot, guys.) "Papa" is first declension, so "papam" is correct; "papem" sounds like an third declension accusative implying "papis" or some such, which is just wrong.

I can't find an online Latin-English dictionary with "potato" in it, but I would think it would be something like "patata."
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