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Latin translation- "strum-ability"

 
 
George
 
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Reply Fri 30 Jun, 2017 04:37 pm
@simpson1,
Mostly experience.
simpson1
 
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Reply Sun 2 Jul, 2017 11:43 am
@George,
psallo, psallere 'to play on a stringed instrument, especially the cithara.' [my dictionary definition]
My therapist presented psallere to me. He gave a definition that included 'to pluck' [as in stringed instrument, not as in chicken.] He found this on internet, so i am somewhat doubtful.
However, in my dictionary below psallo, psallere, is the word psalterium, 'a stringed instrument, the psaltery.' If one plays a psaltery by plucking the strings, then psallere could mean "to pluck a gut string'.

To double check, could psallere be a suitable word for 'to pluck a tendon with one's thumb'?
[we have deviated from strummability.]
[I assume "pluckability" would be 'psallebilitas'?, to coin a word by George's method.]


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simpson1
 
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Reply Mon 3 Jul, 2017 12:14 pm
@George,
pulsabilitas= strummability
my therapist settled on psallabilitas (for pluckability). I did tell him it is a made up word (but so is "pluckability"). I found he was really looking for a term for when a tendon could be plucked, vs strummed.
thanks for your help.
I don't know his intent, except wanting a cool sounding name for when a muscle was in tension and in need of therapy.
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simpson1
 
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Reply Mon 3 Jul, 2017 04:51 pm
@George,
I am finding that Latin is much like other things i have tried to learn.
the more i learn, the more there is to it.
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George
 
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Reply Tue 4 Jul, 2017 06:53 am
I definitely learned a new word with psallo.
simpson1
 
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Reply Wed 5 Jul, 2017 04:07 am
@George,
I learned (a great deal) more than that, more than i will remember i am sure.
thanks for your help.

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