(July 30, 2023 at 1:46 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 30, 2023 at 1:43 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Now I am even more confused. The original Greek has the word ἔτη, which is the nominative, accusative and vocative plural of ἔτος (year). So, why didn't Jerome simply translate it as "annos", which is the accusative plural, but instead chose "annis"?
I don’t know. I don’t care. Maybe it was meant to be an infarcative gerund.
Boru
Gerund of... which verb? Gerund is a noun made from a verb, the "-ing" nouns in English.