Re: Scientist's etymology vs. scientific etymology

--- dgkilday57 <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

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>
> Oscan <trutum> 'quartum', for *ptrutum, shows that
> the zero-grade
> stem did indeed exist. The form <Ptroni(us)> from
> the Ager Paelignus
> shows that Paelignian also had *ptru-, without
> dropping the p-;
> likewise there is an Etruscan <Ptruni>, the
> gentilicium borrowed from
> one of these conservative P-Italic languages.
>

So, Petronius Arbiter, the inventor of the road trip,
was really a Quatronius in Latin?