Questions tagged [technology]
For questions about using Latin or Greek to speak about technology. For using modern technology to write these languages, see the tags 'latin-on-devices' and 'greek-on-devices'.
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What are the differences between the words "QUASI", "HYPER", and "PSEUDO"?
As an opening our question, briefly consider the following three examples of mathematical terminology:
Quasi-Sphere
Hyper-Sphere
Pseudo-Sphere
What are the differences between the words "QUASI&...
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Is there any Neo-Latin word for the concepts of "hacking" and "hacker"?
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From the options I have seen so far, the options that seem to me best were, for a generic description of hacking, to say that it is in computatorium irrumpere, with a hacker being a ...
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Latin translation of "model"
"model", when meaning "a pattern for imitation", is expressed by Latin exemplum, exemplar, forma, proplasma, according to the dictionary. "model" comes from modulus, ...
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Ranking the Difficulty of Latin Authors
Has there been a rigorous study of ranking the difficulty of ancient Latin authors? You often see (and, from personal experience, feel) the increase in difficult going from Caesar to Tacitus or Vergil ...
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What did the Romans think about new technology?
Are there any attested texts where a Roman comments on some new technology?
The modern world sees a constant flux of them, but technological advancement was slower in antiquity and I do not recall ...
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Wifi or Wireless fidelity in Latin?
Salvē!
I am new here and searched the questions, but could not find anything.
In another site somebody suggested: interrete trans spiritum, but this seems too long. Maybe a catchy abbreviation such as ...
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What is a "robot" in Latin?
I read in Wikipedia the word robotum and robotor. Also, there is automaton, and androides. I don't see such a word in the [short online version of the] Lexicon Recentis Latinatis by the Vatican (which ...
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Translation to Latin: "Forward engineering"
I am looking for a new name for my engineering company. I want to translate the English phrase 'Forward engineering' into Latin language.
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What should we call a laptop?
This question arose the other day in our chat room:
What is a laptop in Latin?
There are several possible ways to approach this.
It feels most reasonable to me to take a word for "computer" and ...
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What is the term for extremely loose Latin word order?
For a Latin-language artificial intelligence called Mensa Latina the user manual will need to discuss and therefore refer to the phenomenon in Latin prose where meaning comes from grammar and ...
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How to download an entire text from Perseus?
This is a technical question, but I hope it's on topic. The Perseus project contains lots and lots of Latin and Greek texts (and other languages too). I sometimes want to download an entire text from ...
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Did Frontinus mention siphons?
On a rather informative website on aqueducts, I came across the following passage:
Frontinus is another classical author who wrote about aqueducts. Around 100 AD he was supervising the aqueducts of ...
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An error message in Latin for my programming language
I am writing a piece of software that translates programs into programs (a "compiler", in informatics lingo) and my source language allows the programmer to specify Latin numerals.
In case the ...
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What is the difference between "return" and "yield"?
In the Python programming language, "yield" and "return" are keywords with specific meanings.
A function can either yield a result (sending that result back and then continuing to work), or return it ...
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What is chat in Latin?
What would be a good Latin noun or verb to translate "chat" in the sense that would apply to our chat room, for example?
There are verbs like garrire, fabulari, verbigerare, and simply colloqui but I ...
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