Questions tagged [ambiguity]

It's the Middle Ages and you're explaining to someone how to play rock-paper-scissors. You say: Cisorium pergamenum vincit. Wait a minute. Both of those nouns, being neuter, are the same in both nominative and accusative. Latin has free word order…

Dædalus solus volare didicit. Does that mean: Dædalus alone learned to fly? Dædalus learned to fly alone? Dædalus learned on his own to fly? How could you indicate each of those meanings without ambiguity?

In some nouns the genitive singular is the same as another case, such as: First declension: fīliī could also be nominative plural Second declension: fīliae could also nominative plural Some third declension nouns: canis could also be nominative…