Talk:Burthorpe (historical)

Furnulum pani noli
(Literally toasted bread). I removed this comment, see my reasoning below...

Pani modifies furnulum, specifically as a masculine singular genitive, i.e. "toaster of bread", so it translates well enough as "bread toaster," or just "toaster," cause what else is toasted, really? The -lum suffix means "thing" more or less, and is added to verbs to "nounize" them, not unlike "er" is added in english (toast -> toaster). Furnulum supposedly means something like "the thing that toasts," though I cannot find any verb "furno" at all. I suspect it is a psudo-latin back formation of "furnus" (oven,) though I could be completely wrong.

That being said, "Furnulum pani nolo" means "I do not want a toaster." "Nolo" is a verb that means "not want," the indicative form is "nolo" i.e. "I do not want." "Noli" is the imperative form, so F. p. noli literally means "You do not want a toaster!" To which I say "How do you know?"Spike2021 17:56, 26 July 2008 (UTC)