{"id":5683,"date":"2017-03-16T05:26:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T05:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/16\/does-aunt-have-a-latin-based-adjectival-form\/"},"modified":"2017-03-16T05:26:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T05:26:27","slug":"does-aunt-have-a-latin-based-adjectival-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/16\/does-aunt-have-a-latin-based-adjectival-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Does ‘Aunt’ Have a Latin-Based Adjectival Form?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following weighty question flashed across my mind this morning: which word is to 'aunt' as 'avuncular' is to 'uncle'? A little Internet pokey-wokey brought me to materteral<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maternal, paternal, fraternal, sororal, avuncular, materteral!<\/span><\/p>\n

Hard to pronounce and useless for purposes of communication with hoi polloi<\/em>, but interesting nonetheless.<\/span><\/p>\n

I pity those who interests are exhausted by the utile<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The following weighty question flashed across my mind this morning: which word is to 'aunt' as 'avuncular' is to 'uncle'? A little Internet pokey-wokey brought me to materteral. Maternal, paternal, fraternal, sororal, avuncular, materteral! Hard to pronounce and useless for purposes of communication with hoi polloi, but interesting nonetheless. I pity those who interests are … Continue reading “Does ‘Aunt’ Have a Latin-Based Adjectival Form?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}