user:Fastifex

Ave, L.S. !

(two Latin greetings to the reader, one authentical in Roman life, the second still common in modern writings)

FASTIFEX is an artificial Latin name, as far as I know, though it could have existed in ancient Rome.

It consists of fasti and the common suffix -fax, from facere 'to make',

hence in this case : "He who produces (i.e. writes, or in Wiki-jargon contributes) fasti",

which is a way to express I am a historian -as it happens from Flanders- with a broader interest in various matters worth recording.

Just as the ancient fasti, I have a special interest in institutional matters,

secular and religious, past and present, close to home and faraway -

just as I feel an encyclopaedian should be, ideally.