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Title: Latin - Suam or Suum?
Post by: Wayne N on Saturday 05 July 25 06:19 BST (UK)

Should suam be suum (in orange) since it appears to refer to testamentum and not voluntatem? ... or is it something else?

..quod praeno(m)i(n)atus Simon Ladd defunctus, dum vixit compos
mentis, ac in sua memoria existens, suum rite et l(eg)itime condidit, 
fecitque testament(u)m suum in se continen(s) ultimam voluntate(m) 
pu(blic)tisus annex(um), in quo sive qua praefatum Johannem Ladd, suum et d(i)c(t)i..

Title: Re: Latin - Suam or Suum?
Post by: Bookbox on Saturday 05 July 25 09:33 BST (UK)

I think it should be suum (not suam), though the wording here is by no means standard.

Also, p(rese)ntibus annex(um) or annex(atum).

Title: Re: Latin - Suam or Suum?
Post by: Wayne N on Saturday 05 July 25 09:45 BST (UK)

Thank you kindly Bookbox

Title: Re: Latin - Suam or Suum?
Post by: jnomad on Saturday 05 July 25 11:28 BST (UK)

Are you sure it can’t go with “voluntatem”?

Title: Re: Latin - Suam or Suum?
Post by: Bookbox on Saturday 05 July 25 11:33 BST (UK)

Quote from: jnomad on Saturday 05 July 25 11:28 BST (UK)

Are you sure it can’t go with “voluntatem”?

No, I'm not sure, which is why I said 'I think ...'. But the word ordering would be a little strange for suam to go with voluntatem ?

Title: Re: Latin - Suam or Suum?
Post by: jnomad on Saturday 05 July 25 13:00 BST (UK)

I'm not sure either. But from distant memory of ancient Latin, I think Cicero (e.g.) might have put "suam" there, trusting in the gender to make it clear which noun it went with. Taken this way, "suam" puts a kind of emphasis on the fact that the wish is his own.