[i] Quis est [ii] tibi [iii] auctor [iv] maximē ¦ dīlēctus? │ Literally: [i] Who is [ii] for you [iii] the author [iv] most ¦ loved?
= Who is your favourite author?
Note: the dative pronouns mihi, tibi etc.
can also express ‘for me, for you’ in the sense of your point of view; ‘in my /
your opinion’
Erit ille mihi semper deus. (Virgil) │ He will always be a
god for me i.e. in my opinion
Meryl Streep erit mihi semper actrīx maximē dīlēcta. │ Meryl
Streep will always be my favourite actress.
Cicero est mihi auctor maximē dīlēctus. │ Cicero is my
favourite author.
Catullus est mihi poēta maximē dīlēctus. │ Catullus is my
favourite poet.
Quis est tibi [ …. ] maximē dīlēctus [m.] / dīlēcta [f.]? │
Who is your favourite …?
A number of the nouns listed below have feminine equivalents
although they are rarely attested – if at all – in Classical Latin. However,
they can be used to convey our opinions on female writers, artists and
peformers:
actor, actōris [3/m]; actrīx, actrīcis [3/f]: actor; actress
auctor, auctōris [2/m]: author; this word has meanings way
beyond its fairly narrow use now:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/auctor#Noun_2
The Lewis and Short dictionary deals with the noun in great
depth specifically referring to it as somebody who brings about the existence
of any object:
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059:entry=auctor
cantātor, cantātōris [3/m]; cantātrīx, cantātrīcis [3/f]:
singer [m.]; singer [f.] or musician; minstrel
cantor, cantōris [3/m]; cantrīx, cantrīcis [3/f]: singer
[m.]; singer [f.]; an actor; a “player”
pantomīmus, -ī [2/m]: pantomime performer
“..the performer in that kind of dramatic piece in which a
story was represented by mere dancing and rhythmical movement by a single
dancer” (Smith et al: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities)
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0063:entry=pantomimus-cn
pictor, pictōris [3/m]: painter
poēta, -ae [1/m]: poet
saltātor, saltātōris [3/m]; saltātrīx; saltātrīcis [3/f]:
dancer [m.]; dancer [f.]
scrība, -ae [1/m]: writer; scribe; secretary; clerk
scrīptor, scrīptōris [3/m]; scrīptrīx, scrīptrīcis [3/f]:
writer [m]; writer [f]; the term scrīptrīx referring to a
female writer is not attested in Classical Latin but it does appear in a
manuscript from around 1100 AD indicating that the scribe was a woman
sculptor, sculptōris [3/m]: stone-cutter; sculptor
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