How would one form in Latin the following type of construction:
Cat-God
Boy-King
Would it just be the nominative (Feles-Deus, Puer-Rex) or some other way?
Feles,
My understanding is that you either have to do it as a noun+adjective (not two nouns!) or, you can create the word by combining two noun-stems, giving you a single word (felideus, felidei, for instance, but I don’t have my notes here at school so I couldn’t give you a more precise rendering).
How would I form an adjective out of ‘deus’?
feles diva
feles dia
feles divina
See entries for these words at Whitaker’s words. You may also reverse the word order. But, dear Feles, why do you want to know this specifically? That would be interesting to know. Are you writing a novel or preparing a ceremony? Kynetus Curiosus
I think I see - so in effect I am saying ‘divine, godlike cat’ which implies a god?
Kynetus, I am doing neither. What I do like to do is to compose Latin after each chapter I finish as a way of exercising what I have learned outside of drills and the like. But rather than just write things like ‘the cat lived in the forest on the island’ I thought I could just have some fun and make up a short narrative, where I could use the 1st, 2nd and 3rd decelensions and the various active tenses I have learned so far.
Poeta fabulam narrat de regina et fele divina…
Salve Feles
Hello or Hale Cat
Scripsisti inter alia haec
You wrote among other [things] these [things]
Poeta fabulam narrat de regina et fele divina…
Consilium tuum probo.
I approve of your plan.
Cura, vates felina, ut nobis mittas fabulam tuam cum…
Take care, o feline prophet/poet, that you send us your story when…
eam perficeris.
you have (shall have) finished it.