GhostOfClayton Posted November 6, 2010 Report Share Posted November 6, 2010 (edited) Check out a few of those words on Glossa. A superb Latin website. Edited November 7, 2010 by GhostOfClayton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nephele Posted November 6, 2010 Report Share Posted November 6, 2010 Check out a few of those words on Glossa. A superb Latin website. Oh, it's not so superb. Glossa's Latin entries are not only lifted entirely from Lewis & Short (a truly superb source for Latin etymologies), but the Greek source words duplicated in Glossa's entries are missing letters. Check the "see also" entry for Threissa: Tracia. The Greek source words given are missing the letter theta, thereby making no sense at all. It must be some glitch in their transcription (theft) of Lewis & Short. -- Nephele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostOfClayton Posted November 7, 2010 Report Share Posted November 7, 2010 Check out a few of those words on Glossa. A lacklustre and (and maybe even plagiarised) Latin website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanista Posted November 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2010 *lol* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nephele Posted November 7, 2010 Report Share Posted November 7, 2010 Ha! Some fancy footwork there, CoG. I have to admit, though, that even Lewis & Short probably isn't ideal for these purposes, as Lewis & Short includes late Latin and ecclesiastical Latin. For a dictionary of classical Latin (which just includes words in use up to the year 200 C.E.), the Oxford Latin Dictionary would be the better source. But I haven't got one of those handy. The OLD is on my wish list. -- Nephele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medusa Posted November 7, 2010 Report Share Posted November 7, 2010 I've no proof that they were actually used to describe a gladiatorix using the same weaponry as a Thraex. -- Nephele gladiator = gladiatrix (leave the "o" out) Same of course for all male versions ending on -tor become -trix in the female version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nephele Posted November 7, 2010 Report Share Posted November 7, 2010 I've no proof that they were actually used to describe a gladiatorix using the same weaponry as a Thraex. -- Nephele gladiator = gladiatrix (leave the "o" out) Same of course for all male versions ending on -tor become -trix in the female version. Oops! Typo. -- Nephele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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