That Latin you learned. Wanna deploy it? What would the equivalent of equestrian be for dragons? Dracostrian? Looking at the root equester.
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Replying to @MaryRobinette
equus : eques : equestrian :: draco : draces : dracestrian
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Replying to @chaosprime
That looks plausible. What does the middle bit refer to? equester was genetive.
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Replying to @MaryRobinette
eques, horseman -> equester, belonging to a horseman
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Replying to @chaosprime @MaryRobinette
i tried to figure out what someone who went from "equus" horse to "eques" horseman would do with "draco"
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Replying to @chaosprime
Oh, right. But equester is how we get to equestrian. At least that's what ye olde etymology dictionaries tell me.
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Replying to @MaryRobinette
sure, i just elided that step but it's in there equus : eques : equester : equestrian :: draco : draces : dracester : dracestrian
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i just have a dilettante occultist's Latin, not like Fade over there, but i'm pretty okay at replaying a linguistic pattern recontextualized
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