Latin?

[swestrup]

My latin is pretty rusty, can anyone confirm or deny that 'Deivorous' is the correct adjective for a creature that eats gods?

Comments

[sarahcarotte.livejournal.com]

Sounda good to me. I'm pretty sure it's not conventional, but it's logical. I would know what you meant.

[galialuna.livejournal.com]

Yep, but the spelling strikes me more like old french rather than latin because of the "ou". Usually latin is not written that way.

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm

[sps.livejournal.com]

Or English, of course.

[swestrup]

I was trying to derive a new English word from latin roots. Where did I screw up?

[swestrup]

Thanks, but thats where I started. I just don't know how good a job I did since latin is complex.

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

as the grand-daughter of a latin professor... it's really not. it's even more spooky when you think of words in their original form.

tra-la-la-la

[sps.livejournal.com]

You didn't. Except in that people thought you were asking a Latin question rather than an English question?

[galialuna.livejournal.com]

You didn't screw up at all! ^_^
I've even heard that word being used exactly like that before. It just seemed like you were asking if that word was Latin.

[galialuna.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! And English, too.
^_^

[helenkacan.livejournal.com]

I was curious about your question and tried some of the sources I'd used online when conjuring up a ritual for a fic I've not finished yet. Anyway, what I'm thinking is that you should use the word as a noun, rather than as a verb. It's one thing for people to see carnivorous vs carnivore but deivorous vc deivore is a titch more confusing. But you get extra brownie points for thinking up the word. And just which gods are getting eaten?

Herbivorous hugs,
H.

[swestrup]

I've been trying to invent strange new creatures, and I started wondering what the list of things are that something could live off of. Gods seemed to be a nifty and scarey idea, so I tried to figure out what you would call that.