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).

## [recensere] Motor Bus

Justinus posted a link to this poem, above, but it no longer works. Perhaps there's room on a disputatio page for the whole poem? A nd rew D alby 19:30, 20 Februarii 2007 (UTC)

  What is it that roareth thus?
  Can it be a Motor Bus?
  Yes, the smell and hideous hum
  Indicat Motorem Bum!
  Implet in the Corn and High
  Terror me Motoris Bi:
  Bo Motori clamitabo
  Ne Motore caedar a Bo —
  "Dative be or Ablative
  So thou only let us live:
  Whither shall thy victims flee?
  Spare us, spare us, Motor Be!"
  Thus I sang; and still anigh
  Came in hordes Motores Bi,
  Et complebat omne forum
  Copia Motorum Borum.
  How shall wretched lives like us
  Cincti Bis Motoribus?
  Domine, defende nos
  Contra hos Motores Bos!
    A. D. Godley

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