"Versio Nova Documenti Tutorialis Formationis Verborum Latinorum"
"A New Version of a Latin Word Formation Tutorial"

This one:

The Formation of Latin Diminutives of Nouns and Adjectives

The sections are now numbered!

"De Phobia Verbis"
"About Phobia Words"

Helpful tip: If you feel that a new "phobia" word should be invented, you probably should leave the invention of the word to the experts. Not only do people in general have no frackin' clue how to form such compounds, they also have no idea whether the word element they are using is Greek or Latin. I mean, ( Read more... )

"Versio Nova Documenti Tutorialis Formationis Verborum Latinorum"
"A New Version of a Latin Word Formation Tutorial"

Right here:

The Formation of Latin Diminutives of Nouns and Adjectives

"Res Plures de -μενος, -μενη, -μενον"
"More Things about -μενος, -μενη, -μενον"

A few days ago, I proposed the use of Latinized versions of the Greek middle/passive active participle endings -μενος, -μενη, -μενον - -menus, -mena, -menun - to create passive active participles for Latin, like amāmenus, "being loved." Other things can be said about ( Read more... )

"Figurae Participiorum Hypotheticalium"
"Forms of Hypothetical Participle in Latin"

It is a shame that Latin lacks (for the most part) both a present passive participle and a perfect active participle; it is not possible to say "being loved" and "having loved" with just a simple participle form in Latin.

Present
Future
Perfect

Active
amāns
(" ( Read more... )

"De Figuris Hypotheticalibus Verborum Irregularium"
"About Hypothetical Forms of Irregular Verbs"

On Wednesday, in the Classics room, I was writing up on the board my hypothetical passive-voice forms of the verb sum, esseAs you could imagine, I got some responses from some of the other people there that amounted to, "What on earth ( Read more... )

"De Periculo Verborum Componendorum"
"About the Danger of Combining Verbs"

So, you are writing in Latin, and you want to create a compound verb that uses a particular noun. Let us use "mountain climbing" as an example of something you want to render in English. It seems easy enough to combine mons, "mountain," and ascenere, "to climb," and so you ( Read more... )

"Genocide et Genericide"
"Genocide and Genericide"

We all know about the word genocide. Yes, it is a Greco-Latin hybrid: From Greek γένος [genos], "race," and Latin caedere, "to kill," in the form of the combining form -cide (Latin -cidium). It is also otherwise well-formed: geno- + -cide.

The word would be genericide if it were made up of ( Read more... )

"De Verbo Anapophasist Richardi Carrier"
"About Richard Carrier's Word Anapophasist"

Richard Carrier, one of my heroes, posted this a few years ago:

Atheist or Agnostic?

He uses a word that I have not seen before, anapophasist:

I say more about all this in Sense and Goodness without God (see pp. 253-56). Beyond what I say there, technically I ( Read more... )

"Iocus Quoque?"
"Also a Joke?"

( Lege )