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:::Gratias tibi ago, ut saepe, Iustine! <font face="Gill Sans">[[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew]]<font color="green">[[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby| Dalby]]</font></font> 20:21, 17 Septembris 2007 (UTC)
::::Err, I looked into a german online-diktionary. There is the word "ferrum" translated as "weapon" --[[Usor:General-Osiris|General-Osiris]] 11:48, 18 Septembris 2007 (UTC)
:::::Well, then, you have to find a better dictionary. Any ''good'' dictionary will make clear that the main meaning of this word is "iron". Poets and other fancypants often use a word meaning "iron" for "weapon" because it happens to suit them. But an encyclopedia can't do that. And even a poet would be taking a big risk in describing a liquid fire substance, however bellicose, as "iron". People won't understand. "This poet is a fool," people would say.
:::::A good rule to follow is this. If you don't previously know the meaning of the word you found in a German-Latin dictionary, you should ''always'' (as I said above) recheck it in the Latin-German dictionary. They taught me this at school and they were right. If the first meaning of the word, as revealed in that way, is something quite distinct (and that's the case here), it may be better to search again for another word. Readers, when they read your text, will expect the word to have its common meaning (in this case "iron"), not its subsidiary or poetic meaning, "weapon". <font face="Gill Sans">[[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew]]<font color="green">[[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby| Dalby]]</font></font> 13:06, 18 Septembris 2007 (UTC)
I've revised the first paragraph and added a reference for the Latin and Greek names. Maybe someone else will have a look at the rest? I can never make the "ref name" feature work, so I'm afraid the footnotes are now more repetitive than they need to be. <font face="Gill Sans">[[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew]]<font color="green">[[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby| Dalby]]</font></font> 20:53, 17 Septembris 2007 (UTC)
:Ah, I see it now! The notes are OK, therefore. <font face="Gill Sans">[[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew]]<font color="green">[[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby| Dalby]]</font></font> 20:57, 17 Septembris 2007 (UTC)
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