We have often seen, in the public and internal code names for Macs, in Easter Eggs and in the names of applications, that there were some erudite people travailing in the Apple grottos. That they then chose Centris, the little-known and solitary example of the sixth declension in Latin, comes as no surprise. So little-known, in fact, that the word can be found in no Latin dictionary. Its declension, as befits an outlier (a contraction of out-and-out liar), was unusual, viz.:
- centris, centres
centri, centries
centrum, centrem
centruius, centriorum
centri, centribus
centre, centrebus
which you will readily discern as borrowing heavily from the common five declensions. All things considered, perhaps we should stick with Centrises rather than Centres.
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