For reference, in forma pauperis means "in the shape of a poor man"; pockets aren't mentioned. As far as I'm aware, the Romans didn't have pockets and so there would be no way to express the concept in Latin.

Latin was the international language of Europe for almost a thousand years after the collapse of the Roman Empire, during which time many scientific advancements were made. There are plenty of Latin words for things that didn't exist in Antiquity.

There are tiny communities who use recreational Latin today. Here's the Vicipaedia article on the telephonum: https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephonum

But that doesn't really constitute a good argument that there is a Latin word for telephones.

Given that telephone is Ancient Greek (though obviously coined more recently), I don't see why there shouldn't be a Latin word for it.

Thank you, beautiful refutation of an argumentative quarralous, I would even say bad faith, assertion, which we see entirely to often now imo.

I had no idea this existed, and you just made my day with it.

> As far as I'm aware, the Romans didn't have pockets and so there would be no way to express the concept in Latin.

I know this is probably not meant to be funny, but for whatever reason, in reading it, I couldn't help but laugh.