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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Giorgia Meloni’s Italy wants to rename electricity

www.politico.eu

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Giorgia Meloni’s Italy wants to rename electricity

www.politico.eu

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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Rome wants to change the name of the electric potential unit of measurement to “volta.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/43436964

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    *Voltae

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      Hmm, I think Volti assuming Volta is masculine: https://connex-ita.com/plural-in-italian/

      Voltae looks more like Latin. Romani ite domum!

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        Italian here. Plural would still be Volta, because it already is in a sense. Now, for the actual words “volta” meaning vault, arch, and “volta” meaning “time” (as in “that time we did that”), then the plural is “volte”.

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        Now write it out a hundred times!

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        I do not know Italian, but I’d be surprised if a word ending on “a” were masculine. Usually, “a” indicates feminine, making the plural “e”

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          Ancient Romans gobbled a lot of classical greek; the masculine -a nouns are usually greek origin (sistema, tema, problema), but they are the exception.

          Volta is a proper name, though, so there wouldn’t be any rules.

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          It would be neutrum in German. (the forbidden sex)

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      Voltae would be Latin, in Italian, Volte is the correct plural.

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        In German it would be Voltae.

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          And now let the Italian and the German far right fight over it.

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