All right, people. I need help with terminology for my book and you're going to give it to me! At least...I hope you are. Here's the deal:
> I need a new word made from the Latin word "dimidiata", which means "half, incomplete".
> Variations of the word need to be able to refer to both a group of people and a single person, like 'the farmers / a farmer'. Okay, that's a bad example because all I'm doing is adding an 's' on the end, but you get the picture.
> It needs to be apparent that the word is derived from dimidiata, but doesn't necessarily need to resemble dimidiata. If that makes any sense.
> I'm looking for something with a slightly softer sound to it than dimidiata.
> This term is going to be used A LOT in my book, so it can't be anything too cumbersome (which is part of my issue with dimidiata -- five syllables!).
Got it? Great! You can submit as many entries as you'd like in the comments of this post between now and this coming Friday, September 5th. I'll select the term I like the best over the weekend and the winner will receive an Urban Fantasy or Paranormal Romance book of their choice from Amazon. And, if this book gets published, you'll also receive credit in the acknowledgements. But, seeing as I'm still revising it, I'm thinking the free book from Amazon is the more attractive offer here. ;)
So! Put your linguistic thinking caps on and get to it!
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