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"Sun Wu-K'ung" <barbelith@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ca6e731a.0210221430.219ad44f@posting.google.com...
> "Alex Sumner" <alex_sumner@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:<3db53842$0$19877$afc38c87@news.ukonline.co.uk>...
> > "Asiya" <asiya_is_here@SATNAMatt.net> wrote in message
> > news:wF7t9.18062$Mb3.587216@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> > > "Ka" <too_freeMAPS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > > news:ap2gg6$irs$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > > >
> > > > *Is there a female version of "mugus", like..... Magess or
> > > something?
> > >
> > > What about the word "magus" would make it inapplicable to a
female?
> > >
> > "-us" masculina singula nominativa suffix est - ergo, "Magus"
"Wise Man"
> > est. Nescio si erat feminina versio, sed si erat ipsa, "Maga"
erat.
>
> 'Maga' is correct.  Ovid uses it to refer to Circe in his
_Metamorpheses_.

This is very interesting, thanks. But damn, "maga" doesn't have quite
the same ring to it...

Asiya