Re: sword

--- In cybalist@..., "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:

> >"exerci turim pellator"
>
> I agree that exercituum would be a good reading from exerciturim,

because

> "u" could so easily have been read as "ri". I'm less happy

with "pellator".

> This would be an -a- stem formation from a 3rd conjugation verb.

Are there

> any examples at all of -ator nouns from 3rd conjugation verbs?
>
> My suggestion of exercitus impellator has "s" read as "r" - which

is no

> means impossible! I've been trying to find evidence

for "impellator" =

> "imperator" (which I suggested from memory) - but alas no firm hits

as yet!

>
> Peter

Obviously we are confronted here with a lambdacising dialect of
Latin - or perhaps the swordsmith was Chinese?

Torsten