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I instantly thought of pudendum. which may be the 'prudish' for the female genitalia.
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The words are related. Both come from the Latin pudere, to make or be ashamed.
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And the -bund is the same one as in moribund.
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And the -bund is the same one as in moribund. Would you clarify that statement, please? I tried looking up bund, and words that end in --bund, and indeed found some, but the explanations gave me no clue why it's on the end of these two words. Thank you.
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gemebund- joe (another shameless hogwash® promotion) friday
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Would you clarify that statement, please?There's an derivational suffix - bundus (- a, - um) in Latin that turns verbs into adjectives. If you look at this list of search results from Perseus (Lewis and Short) you'll find many adjectives and some false positives. (It might be from a future form of the verb and the gerundive ending.)
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Sounds like it might mean a German Socialist organization devoted to reverence of the female reproductive parts as a means for propagating the Master Race
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There's an derivational suffix -bundus (-a, -um) in Latin that turns verbs into adjectives Thanks! I have never been able to make any sense whatsoever of Perseus before; but then I never noticed the directions before! Do you happen to know what database they use to determine frequency and maximum and minimum uses? Just dictionaries? If so, whose and what types, for ex.? All books everywhere? Online books?
This is not of great import to me; nonetheless, the figures make no sense without context.
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Do you happen to know what database they use to determine frequency and maximum and minimum uses? Just dictionaries? If so, whose and what types, for ex.? All books everywhere? Online books?I'm pretty sure they use the classical texts which they have digitized and are available on the same site. Classical philologists were amongst the first in the humanities to use computers. There's a bunch of concordances from the '60s of Latin and Greek authors. David Woodley Packard, the son of one of the founders of Hewlett-Packard, started the Packard Humanities Institute which first digitized the extant corpus of Latin and Greek classical texts.
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