Okay, new question

[swan_tower]

My brain is blurring out from staring at lists of Latin nouns, so I'm going to throw this a bit wider open and see what the commentariat can suggest.

In this totally hypothetical story that I'm totally not working on, there is a group of female knights under holy orders, in a secondary-world setting modeled on medieval Europe, serving the Queen of a place that will probably look like France. I want their names to form a list of the virtues they are supposed to uphold. (There is room for irony here, as they will not always live up to those names.)

What virtues would you expect to see on that list?

I need a total of twelve; suggest as many as you like. Bonus points if you can provide me with Latin nouns matching your suggestions, ending in either -tas or -ia -- I'm trying to see if I can get a satisfactory set without having to rejigger any of the Latin. (I can put together twelve on either pattern, but not without leaving out some concepts I think I'd like to include.)

Comments

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Not a real word, alas. But if you're fudging anyway...

You could also try Sperans, which has a nice sound.

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Eh, I'm trying to avoid fudging now. Otherwise I'd just chuck Fidelia onto the list and be done with it.

I don't suppose you can suggest a word ending in -ia that conveys some concept in the neighborhood of faith/duty/loyalty/friendship? About the best I've been able to do are harmonia and constantia, neither of which are quite what I want.

(Somewhere between fifteen and twenty percent of my readership would really be bugged by invention of that sort, and a lot more would be semi-seriously bugged; that's a high enough number that I'd rather do this by the book if I can.)

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Amicitia?