I know Tevene isn’t ‘real’, but largely based in Latin, so I tried to guesstimate what perrepatae means and based on Latin roots I came up with:
per - re - pat - ae
- per = thoroughly, as in “perfection” or “persistent”
- re = again, as in “repeated”
- pat = endurance, suffering, as in “patience”
- ae = suffix to make it refer to a group or class of thing
Which is used to describe that the perrepatae’s greatest assets are their repeated, unshakeable endurance, patience, and resilience, even when faced with incredible torment and suffering.
It also is functionally similar to incaesor, which literally means “dangerous substance”, describing the qualities of the slave instead of their literal identifier (as mage-killer or magical slave). It also likely is functional in the same way in that it specifically refers to a thing, explicitly a non-person.
