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By Deane Barker • • tags: language, latin •
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This is a prepositional phrase from Latin which means “with.” So “X-cum-Y” means “X with Y.”

Incidentally, this is where the degree honors come from:

Why I Looked It Up

I had seen the phrase/qualifier many times. Recently, I was reading a novel where a character reflected on her purchase of a “radio-cum-record player.”

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I found this The First Man in Rome:

In fact, Marius had displayed his usual genius in sending Sulla rather than Manius Aquillius, who might also have proven his worth as a watchdog-cum-guardian…

I feel like the conjunction “and” is implied there, more than “with.”

↓ Inbound link from – Christian Nationalism: A Biblical Guide For Taking Dominion And Discipling Nations September 21, 2023

This is a book that would offend and anger a lot of people. I get that. I read it so I could understand a friend’s point-of-view a little better. I read it at the same time as The Boniface Option which is even more extreme, but I’m calling out the chance of offense here just because of the title….

↑ Outbound link to – The First Man in Rome June 14, 2022

This is a “historical novel.” It’s sort of fiction, but sort of not. It’s a narrative of history, but apparently quite accurate. The book mainly follows two men: Gaius Marius (a real person ) and Lucius Cornelius Sulla (also a real person ), during the period of 110 - 100BC in Ancient Rome and its…