Talk:Arctos

Latin

Some dictionaries mention:

• a Latinate alternative form, e.g. "Arctus, Ven. Fort. 9, 1, 55: Akk. Arctum, Cic. de nat. deor. 2, 109". But is it Arctus, arctus or both depending on author or edition?
• a plural arcti/Arcti - while some others say that doesn't exist (or isn't attested), and in some places it's indeed not Arcti but an inflected form which means dictionaries turned it into nominative and might give a wrong form.
• an accusative plural in a section for special word forms as: "Akk. Plur. Arctos (arctos), Ov. met. 3, 45 u. 4, 625. Lucan. 5, 155. Sil. 3, 192." Does it want to say it's Arctŏs and not Arctōs in these places? If so, an explanation would be nice. Just a Latin habit of changing vowel length in poetry - or because it's from Greek, more specific from a Greek dialect (cp. Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension#Second declension having some dialects with 2nd declension acc. pl. -ος).
• the wording "minor Arctos" (might be inflected in the acutal source) which would be Ursa Minor. Maybe there's also "major Arctos" = Ursa Major.
• the synonyms "Ursae, Plaustra, Currus, Septemtriones". But at Currus no astronomic sense is given which would mean that the entry currus misses a sense, or Currus is no synonym, or Currus is New Latin (which rather accidently was mentioned).

-84.161.47.237 09:59, 17 February 2018 (UTC)