A Latin quickie
A Latin quickie
How would you translate “English-French” (two coordinate terms, used as an adjective) into Latin? Would it be something like “anglo-francus”, “angli-francus”, “anglico-francus”? Does Latin even have constructions like that?
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Re: A Latin quickie
I'm no Latinist, but I don't think a hyphen is used in traditional Latin orthography. "English-French" can mean several things in English: "between the English and the French", "(both) English and French", "from English to French". Do you want a term that can mean any of those, or just a subset of those? What motivates this question?
Re: A Latin quickie
If it's for a dictionary title, the way it was done, when science in Europe was still done in Latin, was with or without hyphen:
Dictionarium latino epiroticum
Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
English-French would be anglo-gallicum.
If it's a subset of X that is also Y, then it's one word e.g. Gallocraeci "Gauls who migrated to Greece (more preciely to Phrygia)", i.e. anglogallicus.
Dictionarium latino epiroticum
Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
English-French would be anglo-gallicum.
If it's a subset of X that is also Y, then it's one word e.g. Gallocraeci "Gauls who migrated to Greece (more preciely to Phrygia)", i.e. anglogallicus.