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Someday I'll get back to conlanging instead of just exploiting y'all for your linguistic expertise for other purposes. Honest! Several calendars, starting with the ancient Egyptian, are solar with a basic structure of 12 30-day months followed by 5 extra days called the "epagomenae" (or "epagomenal days" in the boring English version). Later revisions introduced the concept of leap years, in which there was a 6th epagomenal day. My question is simple: what's the singular form of "epagomenae"? Is it "epgaomena"? It looks Greek in origin rather than Latin (although the -ae makes me suspicious; maybe it's a Latinization of a Greek borrowing), and my Greek knowledge is pretty much limited to the alphabet. -- Mark J. Reed <[log in to unmask]>