Talk:List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names

message: Can you give some examples of the Greek multiples of ten in systematic names? They aren't spelled in the table as they are in Greek; the Greek words are deka, eikosi, triakonta, tessarakonta, pentékonta, exékonta, ebdomékonta, ogdoékonta, enneékonta. -phma 06:25, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No the greek words are spelt δεκα, εικοσι, etc. How you transliterate these into English is another matter, and various schemes have been in use. There's one approach that's suitable for Modern Greek, and another for Ancient Greek. And most of the technical words that have come into English from Greek have come from Ancient Greek, either via Latin, or presented in a Latin-style orthography, for instance reprsenting κ as c, and representing the rough breathing (lost in Modern Greek orthography) as an initial h. See also List of English words of Greek origin and List of Greek words with English derivatives, both of which have further explanation. rossb 11:15, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: Some examples that come to mind immediately: decalogue, icosahedron, Pentecost. There are probably others of a more technical nature. rossb 11:13, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: "εξηκοντα" would be transliterated as "hexeconta", not "hexacota", in the usual via-Latin transliteration. Do you know of any systematic names using the "-cota" spelling? -phma 01:17, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  examples of multiples of ten 

message: The entries that do not have examples listed should probably be given examples or removed.
:: all entries now have examples DavidAnstiss (talk) 23:15, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  examples 

message: --CopyToWiktionaryBot 09:16, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
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message: Anyone know of a webpage or other tool that, given a genus and species, will provide an English translation from the Latin/Greek/whatever?  For example, if I fed it "Homo sapiens" it would return "Person wise."  --Nessie (talk) 21:16, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: English Wiktionary has been improving rapidly and now includes many Latin entries, including words used only in binomial nomenclature. I'd recommend searching there. However, there is still no definitive resource for this, and some translations can be hard to come by. —Pengo 06:31, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Binomial Name Translator? 

message: In lists of this kind, for adjectives it is usual to either show the unmarked form (masculine for Latin) or to show all three genders (most useful for readers who don't know Latin). Is there a reason why this is not being done here? Compare the entries for "albus" (masculine form) and "americana" (feminine form). If there isn't a reason, then I suggest that a policy be established here and followed. Peter coxhead (talk) 06:23, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a while since I contributed to this list, but you will find that where possible I included examples using each form of the adjective (eg for 'albus' there's Eudocimus albus, Quercus alba and Viscum album). But I'd support the idea of showing all three genders. Certainly a consistent policy would help. (RT) (talk) 15:23, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think my preference would probably be just "alb-", as it seems a little less cluttered and listing all three separately kind of seems like overkill for people who are just reading names, not coming up with them. Kingdon (talk) 20:20, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Gender for adjectives

message: : Thanks for contributing to the work on this page; I'd taken my eye off the ball lately and must get back onto it. But I've reverted your change in which you replaced "look from" by "in title". Fragments like "Amby" are used as prefixes, part-words, and won't be found in a "in title" search. Compare  with . They are a different case from the species adjectives which brought us here: it just seemed that it would be helpful to offer links for them too.
I admit that the column title could be improved, as it's not logical to say "Search for titles containing" and then include "All pages beginnng with". Perhaps they need to be separate columns, but that seemed wasteful of the amount of available page width. There isn't an option, with , to display a different, shorter, wording (as there is with ).  ... I've now tweaked the heading for the column in "A": what do you think? PamD 08:56, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  prefixes 

message: Here are the code fragments I've been using in working on this page. They may be helpful for other editors adding entries. 
* To add the final column to each entry on the page for a Latin adjective of the -us/-a/-um type. 
(Simpler to just add it throughout, then go back and amend/delete).
::   ||  -  - 
* To add the final column for a Latin adjective of the -is,-e type:
::  ||  - 
* To add the final column for a prefix:
::  || 
And some fragments I've used in the pages to which checking these added links has led me:
* Hatnote to add where there is a genus article at the same word as the adjective:
:: 
* Dab page entry to add replacing ptms:
::* xxxxx, a species name
* "See also" entry for a disambiguation page:
::==See also== * Including use as a species name
*"See also" entries for a dab page which perhaps shouldn't exist because it's all species ptms:
::==See also==
* Including use as a species name
*List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
PamD 09:13, 15 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toolkit 

message: I've recently created a page called List of commonly used taxonomic affixes, which deals with the modified Greek and Latin suffixes and prefixes used in taxonomy. I've been thinking that the entries on this list that end in a hyphen could be moved over there while this list deals with just the complete words. Serendipodous 09:56, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Partial merge? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I removed sarawakensis, because this isn't derived from a Latin or Greek word for the geographical location; it just has a (Botanical) Latin ending applied. However, I see that nippon... is also there. Should words like these be removed? I think only those geographical names actually derived from Latin or Greek should be included. Peter coxhead (talk) 15:25, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope again 

message: I'm always quick to want a numerical estimate for the size of a list, but the format here does not make that easy to obtain. 
What I figured out was to search the page source for the string "|-" and then subtract one item per letter of the alphabet, yielding an estimate of about 520 defining entries. 
That's a substantial lexicon. — MaxEnt 18:26, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  I love to count 

message: This page is a viable resource for machine learning, but a missing semantic attribute is names from geography (e.g. from Taiwan) or circumstance of discovery (from the garden; from last week; who would have guessed; bet you never saw this one coming) as opposed to innate descriptive modalities. — MaxEnt 18:32, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page is a viable resource for machine learning  

message: The Latin word pleio- comes from the Greek word pleiōn, which means "larger, greater in quantity, the more part, very many". Roninscholar (talk) 03:53, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  you left out pleio-