Ah, what fun, we are back to out staple!
Try looking for "operor" not "operare", Chris. And to save you the bother
of digging your Lewis & Short out from the pile of Photoshop manuals ...
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059
%3Aentry%3D%2332677
http://tinyurl.com/obbctp
Otjerwise I agree, of course :-)
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From: Chris Barker [mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 May 2009 21:37
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I've always taken it to mean "way of operating", Ken: "operandi" is the the
gerund (noun form) of the verb operare. The gerund would be "operans", with
the genitive (of) form "operandi". But this might be a complete fiction as
I can't find the verb in my Latin dictionary ...
"Modus" seems to have existed, but "operare" might have been made up by some
journalist ages ago.
But if it exists, you would not make the case agree with "modus".
Chris
On 13 May 2009, at 18:54, Ken Norton wrote:
>
> operandi is definitely the more "common" usage, but is it correct when
> dealing with a singular method?
>
> I need to fire my researcher.
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