Disputatio:Systema numericum binarium

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I'm not sure you can use dexter that way. The longer turn of phrase is more correct, but perhaps too clunky. Perhaps a compromise could be reached with digitus maxime a dextro or something like that. Traditinal grammars frown on using prepositional phrases as adjectives, but the Romans did not always observe that rule. I usually feel free to break it. Even if one can use dexter that way, the superlative would presumably be dexterrimus. --Iustinus 18:20, 24 Ianuarii 2006 (UTC)

I find examples of both stems, dextrius is certainly the comparative, but I find dextrissimus and dexterrimus. I don't mind a compromise, but the longer turn of phrase is, as you said, too clunky, certainly a version can be reached that is grammarically accurate, and aesthetically more pleasingly. Maxime a dextro is fine, but I still think dextrissimus/dexterrimus works, too.--Ioshus Rocchio 18:57, 24 Ianuarii 2006 (UTC)

Apud Sallustium et Varronem invenies formam dextimus vel dextumus, quae mea sententia inde potius adhibenda sit. W. B. 9 Kal Febr. 2006 21.36 UTC

On those lines, dextrissumus ought to work, too. Seriously, the language was spoken for a bunch of hundred years. Compare American English today with the language in which the constitution was written. 200 years, a fraction of the time Latin was spoken, can certainly wreak extensive havoc on a language. Many forms are "correct," especially in such ancient constructions as compartives.--Ioshus Rocchio 19:05, 25 Ianuarii 2006 (UTC)