Resident Classicists

[nrenka]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:
> I posted this as a reply to Nora ('happy to be [our] resident
> classicist') and it hasn't shown up so I'm posting again so now it
> will show twice....
> 
> PoA:
> Mobiliarbus = levitate tree
> Mobilicorpus = levitate unconscious person
> 
> OoP:
> Locomotor trunk = levitate trunk
> 
> I think it should be Mobili-something but struggling with on-line
> English->Latin dictionaries was No Help.
> 
> I asked my friend who took Latin and, after discussion, ended up 
with
> two possibilities, neither of which I like:
> 
> Mobilisarcina
> Mobilicista

I don't like either of them, either.  The reason why took a little 
thinking, but here it is:

Neither of those is a common word in Latin.  Neither has clear 
derivatives in English, either.  'Corpus' and 'arbor' both do, so one 
can easily make pseudo-Latinate spells out of them that are more or 
less intelligible to an English speaker.  One can guess 
what 'Mobilicorpus' does fairly easily, but your new spells are a 
little more 'buh?'.

Ergo, JKR probably went for clarity and around problems of how it 
sounds.

-Nora will have to think about the naming of Horcruces...