[nylug-talk] [OT] 21st Century Latin: ``escariorum lavator'' ``orbium phonographicorum theca''

[John Bacalle]

RE: <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/14/international/europe/14LATI.html>

Interesting dead language news.

] May 14, 2003
] 
] Vatican Introduces Latin to 21st Century With New Dictionary
] 
]    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
] 
]    V ATICAN CITY, May 13 (AP) Some may consider Latin a dead language, but
]    a dictionary of modern Latin published by the Vatican has become a
]    "liber venditissimus" a best seller.
] 
]    It is a project to keep the language updated, even if they did not have
]    dishwashers, discos and miniature golf in Roman times.
] 
]    The Vatican's publishing house has just come out with a combined
]    edition of the Latin-Italian dictionary after two earlier volumes, one
]    covering the letters A to L and the second M to Z, sold out. Five
]    hundred copies have been printed with a sale price of $115.

]    The two volumes contain some 15,000 modernized Latin words many of them
]    compounds of existing Latin words. Dishwasher is "escariorum lavator"
]    and disco is "orbium phonographicorum theca."
] 
]    A committee is now working on a new volume, adding mainly words from
]    the computer and information fields. Publication is expected in two or
]    three years.

   John  [tempus edax rerum]

-- 
John Bacalle  'Put that NIC in my hand and let me flit out the jams!'