Hello, I want to create a word. This word would be an English noun, and based on Latin.
The meaning of the word would be an object which limits your sense of knowing/perceiving the world to 5. Mainly 5 senses. Imagine that you have a helmet on, and this helmet limits you to our 5 senses, but if you were to take that helmet off you would be able to perceive and understand the world in more ways than the 5 we currently have, what would I call this helmet?
The letter Q needs some love in the English language and I really like Quin as the prefix. Limit, from what I found online would be ‘tin’ or ‘tent’. Knowing would be ‘sci’.
Separately, what suffix do I use in latin to create a noun? So if I wanted the word to be ‘Quinscitent’ how would I make it a noun?
Apologies for being a noob.
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How about combining Latin and Greek? Something like: the quinsensicran ! (quinque+sensus+κράνος ). κράνος which is a metal helmet in ancient Greek would transliterate into English as kranos or cranos or cranus, so it probably should be quinsensicranus, which may not be too many syllables for a doctor, but for us mere mortals, that’s a mouthful. Technically, the root is κράνεσ-, but cran would suggest other words like cranium or cranial, also of Greek derivation. A technically more accurate source word would be -corythium (κορύθιον=little helmet), but quinsensicorythium seems a bit unwieldy as well. Of course, we could go all Latin with quinsensicassida, again a bit long. For marketing (or gaming?) purposes, probably shorter words (“Get that 'cran on! we’re going to do some serious VR here!”) would be better; for scholarly endeavours, most technically accurate would be best.
Anyway, those are my ideas. Hopefully, someone will come up with something better. Good Luck!
Hi, just to add, I guess a threshold question is whether you want your word to fit the “spirit” of English or Latin:
If English, worth wading through an English dictionary to see how compound words are formed that include a “quinque” element.
If Latin, I don’t think Latin would naturally squish all these elements into one word. Something like e.g. a relative clause of characteristic would be more customary.
You asked about a single word however, and so a few general thoughts below.
Since the force of your idea is that something causes something else to be a certain way (causative/factitive), rather than using a suffix, you could consider a syntactic causative compound in participle form: see e.g. AG sec. 266: https://dcc.dickinson.edu/grammar/latin/compound-words for a starting point on formation of verbs in this way.
Using a suffix would capture the least of the original idea I think, even less than a compound: it will be less specific than a compound, and far less than a clause. If you wish to go down this route however (and you did ask above “Separately, what suffix do I use in latin to create a noun?”), the most useful list that I usually turn to is Gildersleeve secs 181–189, where the general force of each suffix is explained: https://archive.org/details/gildersleeveslat00gilduoft/page/124/mode/2up . You could run through that list and pick out the suffix for the noun or adjective most fitting for your purposes.
As to how to combine all this into the most appropriate English noun, I think that’s an English (rather than Latin) question and so don’t feel qualified to give a view (I use English as a native speaker rather than as an English grammar specialist). I don’t think it’s actually a Latin question: just as someone doing a painting of a sculpture is not practicing sculpture, but painting, I think the expression of Latin in English in any form (translation, word creation etc.) is really an exercise in English. I don’t have any skills in English word creation, but hope these general notes on Latin word creation are helpful.