I should know this,but is equestrian from equus or from equites?
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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.
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Replying to @MaryRobinette @bethmeacham
Unfortunately, there's not a parallel adjective I can find for dragons to build from, though--hm. A sec.
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If you branch out to snakes in general, "colubestrian" is plausible, though I'm playing noun/adj swap games.
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Also, sticking to the dragon side, 'draconterian' is plausible, though built from a rare adjective.
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Or maybe more of a 'dracontestrian' at that point? Oof. I am more classicist than philologist, sorry.
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The problem is that Latin has an adjective for 'having to do with horsemen' and not for '...dragonmen'.
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how does my invention "draces" strike you?
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It suffers from the C-Before-E In English problem; looks like it should rhyme with 'traces'.
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yeah, you'd have to spell the final term drakestrian if you wanted to communicate pronunciation to an English speaker
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that's fairly badass though so i'm down
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That.... that doesn't look bad, actually.
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yeah, the spelling divergence gives that tingly worldbuilding feeling of having traced out some linguistic drift
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