Ed Cryer wrote:
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>> Ed Cryer wrote:
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>>>>>> http://www.e.millner.btinternet.co.uk/languages/LOCUTORIUM.html
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>>>>>> Patruus
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>>>>> Macte noua uirtute, Evan Millner, sic itur ad astra!
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>>>> Locutorium omnino desertum repperi.
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>>>> Obiter quaeram quid sit illud cyberpressorium (Anglice scilicet).
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>>> "Mouse button" or "cursor". What Latin words do you for them?
>>>
>>> Ed
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>> Bulla musculi... cursorium. But then I am of the school that believes
>> neoLatin should be as unpolluted with Greek as possible. Norbert
>> Wiener coined the word "cybernetics" in a book about feedback
>> circuitry and animal nervous systems. Later, in slang at least,
>> cybernaut, cyber***, etc. If cursorium is something that runs, then
>> pressorium is something that presses, not something pressed. Maybe a
>> cyberpressorium is a cam, detent, pawl or something on the governor of
>> a gas motor.
>>
>> pressorius is in L.S., Bacci, Vatican Lexicon, and Morgan but it means
>> "that serves for pressing" [something] not for being pressed.
>>
>> Eduardus
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> Yes, that seems highly in accord with how Latin worked. The "or" ending
> being active in force.
> In fact, there's a general rule about making agent nouns, and it goes
> something like this.
>
> Take the supine and change "um" to "or" to move from passive to active.
> Amo amatum; amatum iri, amatus; amator.
> Rego rectum; rector.
> Audio auditum; auditor.
> Premo pressum; pressor.
>
> Ed
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Of course, in the last (or a later) analysis, the nature of things
trumps all grammar and lexicon:
The button pressed (pressus) becomes a pressor in turn if it is caused
to push (pushes) against, for instance, an electrical contact. So an
effect can become the cause of a later effect.
Eduardus
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