On the Via Again

Another discovery from a Sunday newspaper ad: a travel company called Viator.com. Their motto is Travel with an insider. Viator is a good name, for viator, viatoris m. is a Latin word that means “one who is on the road, a traveler.” The suffix -tor (masculine) or -trix (feminine) means "one who," and it is a handy way to coin new Latin words. So, for example, if you wished to converse in Latin on Twitter, you could call yourself a Pipilator or Pipilatrix, "a person who peeps, chirps, or tweets."