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    1. Mary Robinette Kowal‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 29 Aug 2017

      That Latin you learned. Wanna deploy it? What would the equivalent of equestrian be for dragons? Dracostrian? Looking at the root equester.

      17 replies 7 retweets 56 likes
    2. Fade‏ @fadeaccompli 29 Aug 2017
      Replying to @MaryRobinette

      Hm. The most exact parallel construction would be 'draconestrian', since these usually build off the genitive stem.

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    3. Beth Meacham‏ @bethmeacham 29 Aug 2017
      Replying to @fadeaccompli @MaryRobinette

      I should know this,but is equestrian from equus or from equites?

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    4. Mary Robinette Kowal‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 29 Aug 2017
      Replying to @bethmeacham @fadeaccompli

      According to the etymology I was reading it's coming from the genitive equester. But I don't know Latin at all.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Fade‏ @fadeaccompli 29 Aug 2017
      Replying to @MaryRobinette @bethmeacham

      Unfortunately, there's not a parallel adjective I can find for dragons to build from, though--hm. A sec.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    6. Fade‏ @fadeaccompli 29 Aug 2017
      Replying to @fadeaccompli @MaryRobinette @bethmeacham

      If you branch out to snakes in general, "colubestrian" is plausible, though I'm playing noun/adj swap games.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    7. Fade‏ @fadeaccompli 29 Aug 2017
      Replying to @fadeaccompli @MaryRobinette @bethmeacham

      Also, sticking to the dragon side, 'draconterian' is plausible, though built from a rare adjective.

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    8. Fade‏ @fadeaccompli 29 Aug 2017
      Replying to @fadeaccompli @MaryRobinette @bethmeacham

      Or maybe more of a 'dracontestrian' at that point? Oof. I am more classicist than philologist, sorry.

      3 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    9. Fade‏ @fadeaccompli 29 Aug 2017
      Replying to @fadeaccompli @MaryRobinette @bethmeacham

      The problem is that Latin has an adjective for 'having to do with horsemen' and not for '...dragonmen'.

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      Chaos‏ @chaosprime 29 Aug 2017
      Replying to @fadeaccompli @MaryRobinette @bethmeacham

      how does my invention "draces" strike you?

      9:19 PM - 29 Aug 2017
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        2. Fade‏ @fadeaccompli 29 Aug 2017
          Replying to @chaosprime @MaryRobinette @bethmeacham

          It suffers from the C-Before-E In English problem; looks like it should rhyme with 'traces'.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 29 Aug 2017
          Replying to @fadeaccompli @MaryRobinette @bethmeacham

          yeah, you'd have to spell the final term drakestrian if you wanted to communicate pronunciation to an English speaker

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        4. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 29 Aug 2017
          Replying to @chaosprime @fadeaccompli and

          that's fairly badass though so i'm down

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        5. Mary Robinette Kowal‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 29 Aug 2017
          Replying to @chaosprime @fadeaccompli @bethmeacham

          That.... that doesn't look bad, actually.

          2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        6. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 29 Aug 2017
          Replying to @MaryRobinette @fadeaccompli @bethmeacham

          yeah, the spelling divergence gives that tingly worldbuilding feeling of having traced out some linguistic drift

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        7. Fade‏ @fadeaccompli 29 Aug 2017
          Replying to @chaosprime @MaryRobinette @bethmeacham

          I feel a K implies it's coming from Greek rather than Latin, but I'm biased by a prof with opinions.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        8. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 29 Aug 2017
          Replying to @fadeaccompli @MaryRobinette @bethmeacham

          i mean, it's coming from Greek either way if you kick it hard enough

          2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
        9. Mary Robinette Kowal‏Verified account @MaryRobinette 29 Aug 2017
          Replying to @chaosprime @fadeaccompli @bethmeacham

          I'm bringing @CarrieCuinn over to this part of my query. She's suggested "dracoviatrian" because of the flight aspect of dragons.

          2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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        1. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 29 Aug 2017
          Replying to @chaosprime @fadeaccompli and

          for "dragonrider" that is, by analogy with eques

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