Disputatio:Burkina Faso

vere est verbum perihodos, i, f.,(periodo, QUINT. 9, 4, 125 e a. ) aut periodUS Castiglioni, Aloisius; Mariotti, Scaevola. Vocabolario della lingua latina, latino-italiano, italiano-latino. Quarta editio a Petro Georgio Parroni curata (Taurini, 2007). sed rarus, puto aetas meliore verbum esse--Helveticus montanus 17:25, 7 Novembris 2009 (UTC)

De nomine

It seems to me that Morgan's "Burkina" and Benedict's "Burkina Fasana" (footnotes 2 and 3) are barbarisms -- infallible though both authors may have been in every other way. "Burkina Faso" is a meaningful expression in the local language, and thus indivisible and indeclinable in the context of another language. Benedict is contradicted by his own chancellery, which elsewhere writes "Burkina Faso" (see footnote 1, and there were other examples). So I am against moving this.

... happy, though, to accept "Burkina Fasanus" as adjective on papal authority, comparable in its formation with "republicanus" and "Montepessulanus". Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 15:09, 28 Iulii 2014 (UTC)

At least we know that the adjective burkinensis is attested: http://www.bacterio.net/anaeroarcus.html. IacobusAmor (disputatio) 16:20, 28 Iulii 2014 (UTC)

True, I overlooked the etymology; it would be especially weird to make faso an adjective modifying Burkina when it is a noun modified by Burkina. Lesgles (disputatio) 18:00, 28 Iulii 2014 (UTC)

Melanogaetulia

Hanc sententiam—"Terra antiqua nomine Graeco-Latino classico "Melanogaetulia" cognita est."—removi, quia coniunctionem praecipuam inter civitatem hodiernam et regionem antiquam non vidi. Smith dicit "the southern Gaetulians mingled their blood with their Negro neighbours, the Nigritae, thus giving origin to a people called the Melanogaetuli, or Black Gaetulians (Μελανογαιτοῦλοι, Ptol. 4.6.16 ; Agathem. 2.5) ... The ancient Gaetulia included the S. regions of Marocco, as well as the W. part of the Great Desert." Lewis et Short quoque dicunt "Gaetūli ... = Γαιτοῦλοι, a people of northwestern Africa, south of the Mauri and Numidae, in the modern Morocco". Fontes primarios Latinos non legi, itaque si erravi, quaeso, corrigite! Lesgles (disputatio) 19:57, 18 Februarii 2015 (UTC)