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I am trying to describe a group of people who fight against both good and evil forces. I need a Latin word that conveys this idea--something along the lines of “Those who stand between”.

Can anyone help me with this?

2007-06-22 03:31:08 · 3 answers · asked by mutatus 1 in Society & Culture Languages

3 answers

Found one word that may fit:

Interjectus (plural interjecti). It means: lying between. The verb that was the source of it is 'interjicere', which means: put/throw between; interpose; insert.

It's really an adjective, but Latin could and did make nouns from adjectives.

Using your 'Those who stand between', you could coin a word from 'inter', meaning between, and 'stare', meaning to stand. and come up with 'interstans' meaning 'between standing'. That's actually a present participle, and those also sometimes made it to noun status, where it would be a 'between stander'. Plural of that would be 'interstantes'.

That second one is pure conjecture, but it does describe the way Latin formed new words - they were big into adding a preposition before an existing verb to form a new verb to fill a need.

2007-06-24 07:19:50 · answer #1 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 0 0

Interpositi?
Interserti?

2007-06-22 04:10:02 · answer #2 · answered by JJ 7 · 0 1

" quos ut inter reluctor "

Hope that helped!

2007-06-22 04:14:16 · answer #3 · answered by electro_johnny 3 · 0 1

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