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Latin question: primary, secondary, tertiary--is there one for "last"?

Started by Triple Zero, January 08, 2010, 12:02:34 PM

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Triple Zero

I asked a friend, all he could come up with was "ultimate", but that word signifies too much importance.

See I'm designing an HTML template and in my quest for ultimate (heh) semantics, I don't want to call my sidebar "left" "right" or even "sidebar" because it might not even be on the side. So I call them "primary" and "secondary" to signify that the first is slightly more important than the second, but not as important as the main block of text called "main".

Now usually you have no more than two sidebars, but if I had I'd call it "tertiary", no problem.

Another important reason for doing it this way is that this is the way a lot of semantic HTML templates on the web do it, such as, for instance, the Sandbox Wordpress template.

But then comes the problem, there's another section, the final one, usually called "footer". It usually contains a copyright message and some contact info. Now "footer" signifies that it is at the bottom of the layout, but that's a positional name, saying bottom, or below. The footer might not be below in the layout, it usually is, but it could also be placed in a sort of address box at the left or right maybe.

What is important however, that it always is the final piece of information on the page. So in follow-up of "primary" "secondary", I'd wanna call this block not "footer" but the Latin word for "last". Except as I mentioned above, primary is the most important sidebar, secondary comes after that, and the footer is always the least important one, it will be in tiny font low contrast colour etc. So I kind of feel that the word "ultimate" would lend it too much importance, see?

Yes I understand this is totally pedantic and 200% perfectionistic of mine, but it's something that keeps crossing my mind every time I write an HTML template and get to the footer bit and it is annoying me to no end.

Halp?
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Triple Zero

Yes, that's what I meant, but "ultimate" or "ultimus" have this "final" connotation to that, that this is the last and most important thing.

You know, if you say "this is the ultimate in photographic equipment", it means it's the latest but also the best.

While I'm looking for something that signifies it is the latest thing, but not the best, but more like an appendix or epilogue, an afterthought.

But appendix and epilogue both have the wrong meaning as well.

Maybe I could name it "colophon" because that's the sort of information it contains, after all. Seems like the best choice so far, perhaps.

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Triple Zero

I'm going to go with "colophon", no it's not the answer to the question, but I like it and it works :)

See I made something here: http://000.blackironprison.com/

I got mad inspired by some incredibly tacky web2.0-ish corporate website, and just pasted the "people people" subgenius ad into the empty spaces. Credits are in the colophon, right at the bottom.
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I was going to suggest "terminal" or "terminator" or "cauda" or "coda".

Bu🤠ns

Quote from: Triple Zero on January 09, 2010, 12:38:42 AM
I'm going to go with "colophon", no it's not the answer to the question, but I like it and it works :)

See I made something here: http://000.blackironprison.com/

I got mad inspired by some incredibly tacky web2.0-ish corporate website, and just pasted the "people people" subgenius ad into the empty spaces. Credits are in the colophon, right at the bottom.

HEy that's nice! 

make it into a pamphelt throw some stock photography on it and bam.

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Quote from: Triple Zero on January 09, 2010, 12:38:42 AM
I'm going to go with "colophon", no it's not the answer to the question, but I like it and it works :)

See I made something here: http://000.blackironprison.com/

I got mad inspired by some incredibly tacky web2.0-ish corporate website, and just pasted the "people people" subgenius ad into the empty spaces. Credits are in the colophon, right at the bottom.

That is rather lovely.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


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Kai

Zero, that is AWESOME. And yes, just throw in some stock photography and it will be PERFECT.

Also, some sort of company name at the top.
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. --Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey

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Grand Visser of the Six Legged Class
Chanticleer of the Holometabola Clade Church, Diptera Parish