Resident Classicists

[psychic_serpent]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "nrenka" <nrenka at y...> wrote:

> > Mobilisarcina
> > Mobilicista
> 
...snip...
 
> Neither of those is a common word in Latin.  Neither has clear 
> derivatives in English, either.  

Actually, that's not true.  Cista/cistum means "box" and is the word 
from which "chest" is derived.  (If you give the Latin word the 
Italianate pronunciation it becomes "chist" which is very close to 
the English "chest".)  This word could also have been highly 
appropriate because a word that was commonly used in Scotland that 
many wizards would probably know is "kist", for a small chest or box 
used to store one's money or other valuables.  Although it wasn't in 
the book, in the film of CoS Tom Riddle uses a spell with "cistum" 
in it to force open the box in which Hagrid is hiding Aragog.  I was 
tickled by this because I used the same spell in a fanfic, well 
before the film was released. ;)

--Barb, another resident Classicist