hamaxostichus

Latin

Etymology

Coined in the 20th century from Ancient Greek ἅμαξα (hámaxa, “wagon”) + στίχος (stíkhos, “a row or file (of soldiers)”, “a line (of poetry)”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ha.makˈsos.ti.kʰus/, [hämäkˈs̠ɔs̠t̪ɪkʰʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.makˈsos.ti.kus/, [ämäkˈsɔst̪ikus]

Noun

hamaxostichus m (genitive hamaxostichī); second declension

1. (New Latin) a train
   • 1994, Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, Latinitas‎^[1], page 318:

     Die II mensis Novembris ad oppidum Duranka, haud procul ab urbe Lycopoli (Asyut vel Assiut) in Superiore Aegypto positum, hamaxostichus, benzini exceptoria vehens, exorbitavit, quod via ferrata, magnis pluviis mollita, consederat.

     On the second of November, in the town of Duranka, not far from the city of Lycopolis (Asyut or Assiut) in Upper Egypt, a train carrying a tanker of gasoline derailed because the iron tracks, softened by heavy rains, had subsided.

   • 1996, George Capellanus with Peter Needham, Latin Can Be Fun‎^[2], →ISBN, page 83:

     nonne hamaxostichus Birminghamiensis advenit?

     Did the Birmingham train not arrive?

   • 1999, Michael Bond, Ursus nomine Paddington [A Bear by the Name of Paddington]‎^[3], page 83:

     dum loquitur ululatu machinae vectoriae iuxta crepidinem instructae sublato hamaxostichus movebatur.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hamaxostichus	hamaxostichī
genitive	hamaxostichī	hamaxostichōrum
dative	hamaxostichō	hamaxostichīs
accusative	hamaxostichum	hamaxostichōs
ablative	hamaxostichō	hamaxostichīs
vocative	hamaxostiche	hamaxostichī

Synonyms

• tramen

References

• treno in Carolus Egger (ed.), Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis, Vatican City: Libraria Editoria Vaticana, 1992