What is the Latin stem of the word "mae" adj. meaning my?

) September 9th, 2009

What is the lating stem of the word “mae” an adj. meaning my? in class i had an exam and had to decline a noun/adj pair with the pair being “mea poena” as i was taught in class i took the “ae” off then end of mea making my stem “m”. with this i proceeded to fill in the table of nominative, genitive, dating, accusative, ablative, and vocative singular and plural forms of both
ex. Gen sing= mae poenae. dat sing= mae poenae. dat plur= mis poenis. all of my declinations fo the poenae word was fine but the took off 3 points for my stem of mea. Can anybody tell me what it is so i can correct this and return it to her please????

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It’s “meae”. You’re missing an “e”. Meae is the dative and genitive singular feminine form of meus-a-um.

And for dative plural it’s “meis”, not “mis”.

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It’s not “mae.” It’s “me.” Meus -a -um means meus, mea, meum (masculine, feminine, neuter). And then you add the declensional endings as needed. Look at your ae’s and ea’s. You have them all mixed up.

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