Post #2440756
2023-10-03 11:47 UTC
@oseiler@mastodon.nz Er, isn't merda a neo-Latin word? Surely, Classic Latinist used something like poopus ?
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@robrecht@kind.social 2023-10-03 11:56
@riley@toot.cat @oseiler@mastodon.nz I'm not sure whether the first line is supposed to be a joke (since the second definitely is), but I looked it up and no, as it turns out 'merda' is not only an original Latin word, but it actually pre-dates Latin, already being present in proto-Italic.