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In the book 'The Rights of Persons', written by William Blackstone, in Book 1, Chapter 18, "Of Corporations":
"The king's creation may be performed by the words “creamus, erigimus, fundamus, incorpo- “ramus,” or the like."
It is latin, I have found it in other sources as latin, but I cannot find a translation for it, likely because I don't understand how latin suffixs and conjugation works. The stem of creamus has to do with creation, either as a verb 'to create' or as the noun 'creation'.
The 'us' end suggests it is either masculine or neuter, is either accompanied, nominative or general and can be singular or pleural.
Hope this helps.
"The king's creation may be performed by the words “creamus, erigimus, fundamus, incorpo- “ramus,” or the like."
It is latin, I have found it in other sources as latin, but I cannot find a translation for it, likely because I don't understand how latin suffixs and conjugation works. The stem of creamus has to do with creation, either as a verb 'to create' or as the noun 'creation'.
The 'us' end suggests it is either masculine or neuter, is either accompanied, nominative or general and can be singular or pleural.
Hope this helps.
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It's a form of the verb 'creare' = to create. The -mus indicates the first person plural - in the case of the monarch, this is how they referred to themselves (not I, but We).
Creamus therefore means We create, though why on earth anyone would give that to a child as a name is quite beyond my comprehension. Creavimus (= We created) would make more sense!
Creamus therefore means We create, though why on earth anyone would give that to a child as a name is quite beyond my comprehension. Creavimus (= We created) would make more sense!
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Creamus would simply be "we create." In other words, it is a verb, not a masculine name ending in -us.
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