Disputatio:Laophorum - Vicipaedia

# Disputatio:Laophorum

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I had no idea what the plural of omnibus would be, so I kept it in the singular wherever it appears when writing this article. What would it be? Impetus 16:54 iun 28, 2005 (UTC)

  It is almost a proverb that no two Neolatin authorities will agree on how to say "bus" but I don't think anyone seriously suggests omnibus (except perhaps as a modifier- e.g. plaustrum omnibus "a truck for everyone").
  Suggestions include:
  - laophorum/laophoron/leophorēum/leophorīum/autocinetum lâophoricum (cf. Modern Greek λεωφορείο)
  - coenautocinetum
  - currus publicus/publica raeda/autoraeda publica
  - currus longus/autoraeda longa (I think this is a calque on some language, but I don't know what)
  - vehiculum Pullmanianum/longum.../autocinetum Pullmanianum
  - automatarius currus cursualis/autocurrus cursualis
  - automataria carruca
  O_O
  Myself I've always prefered laophoreum. But alii alia....
  Honestly I also hate any form that is just a Classical Latin vehicle with auto- slapped on the front (e.g. autoraeda = car, automobile, autoplostrum = truck, autobirota = motercycle etc.) But many Modern Latinists prefer these forms for some unfathomable reason. --Iustinus 17:26 iun 28, 2005 (UTC)

  ADDENDUM: I probably should have also mentioned motor bus, motoris bi ;) --Iustinus 17:50 iun 28, 2005 (UTC)

I'd personally use something involving publicus, or use the Greek form laophor- (people-carryer).

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