Can anybody be so friendly to tell me the latin word for computer science.
Of course I know that the word computer did not exist in the original latin
language, but maybe there's a similar word.
Thanks, and cu
cam
The most likely (modern) word would be "informatica" (cf. French
informatique, Spanish informática, Italian informatica), but of course
this is a neologism.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
At the following site you can see a couple of hundred examples of computer
terms in Latin as suggested by a Polish computer scientist/programmer who is
also a Latin enthusiast:
http://www.obta.uw.edu.pl/~draco/docs/voccomp.html
For "computer science" you could use "scientia, doctrina, doctrina,
disciplina or ars" along with the adjective "computatralis."
So, "scientia computatralis," etc. Computer is usually rendered as
"computatrum" or "ordinatrum."
Eduardus