Subject: Re: A Trifinium By Any Other Name...<br/>
Date: Jul 21, 2003 @ 13:56<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1161932927">bravo my doppelganger<br/>
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thats a truly great idea<br/>
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& the more latin the merrier<br/>
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latinizing as much as possible <br/>
or at least as much as convenient <br/>
is probably the most universal gesture one can make under the <br/>
present circumstances<br/>
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& i am pretty sure they would have said quintifinium if they had to<br/>
<br/>
but my sense of the language isnt clear enough to predict <br/>
whether they would have said sextifinium or sexifinium<br/>
<br/>
octafinium or octofinium or octifinium etc<br/>
<br/>
but they probably never had to count past 4 or 5 of these things<br/>
so maybe thats why i cant sniff it out of the language<br/>
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a nice bonus too is that the gthnsv tripoint er<br/>
i mean the trifinium of el salvador guatemala & honduras<br/>
is still called trifinio to this day<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& yes most other languages have a word or several for this too<br/>
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--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, spookymike@a... <br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I visited my local library Saturday and found the following <br/>
 </span></blockquote>definitions in <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; The Oxford Latin Dictionary (1997):<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Trifinium:  A place where three boundaries meet.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Quadrifinium:  A place where four boundaries meet.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; I found no &quot;...finium&quot; for five boundaries or more.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; I prefer &quot;trifinium&quot; to the uninspiring &quot;tripoint.&quot;  As a Latin word it <br/>
 </span></blockquote>also <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; has a universality that &quot;tripoint&quot; does not.  I wonder how the non <br/>
&gt; native-English speakers in this group feel about these terms.  I <br/>
 </span></blockquote>also wonder if there is <br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; a specific word in any other language to describe a trifinium?  <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Mike Schwartz </span></blockquote></div>