Re: Kooragang Island

[John Clifton-Everest <>]

Not a Latin buff, nor a botanist, but at least a linguist.
I suspect the stuff is called Juncus acutus, of which 'Spiny rush' is an
acceptable translation. 'Actutus' doesn't exist in classical Latin as an
adjective, (it has to end in -us, since juncus is masculine!) though
there is an adverb 'actutum', meaning 'promptly' or 'precipitately'.
This would be an odd word to choose even if the name referred to the
plant's being swift-growing.  Is it particularly swift, as rushes go?
John Clifton-Everest