Talk:afroasiaticus

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afroasiaticus

Just made-up by Latin Wikipedia? --幽霊四 (talk) 09:55, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Well, Gábór Takács published a series of papers under the title Lexica Afroasiatica, for what that’s worth, along with a monograph titled Etyma Afroasiatica Nova. Then there’s the conference publication Afroasiatica Tergestina: papers from the 9th Italian Meeting of Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) linguistics, and, from 1982, a Bibliotheca Afroasiatica: A Dictionary of Nigerian Arabic. It seems to be exclusively used in the titles of academic publications, however; I’m not hopeful about finding a use in running text. — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 15:25, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Apparently all the titles are English and could rather have English Afroasiaticus (as if from Latin *Afroasiaticus) in it. --2003:DE:373F:4013:C05F:826B:3C85:3D79 20:09, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

It's not ideal, but entries have used Latin academic-work titles as citations before (one entry which comes to mind is Citations:biophysica, although note that a — or the same? — user objected to the New Latin-ness of those book titles). It complicates the matter of deciding whether to lemmatize on a form in afro- or in Afro-, and whether to lemmatize -us or -a iff all the cites use -a. I did also find this:

• 1984, T. R. New, A Biology of Acacias, page 114 (a paragraph also found in 1964, Travaux [Université de Toulouse. Laboratoire Forestier], volume 1, issue 8, parts 13-19, page 15) :

  Semina funiculo in parvum arillum ad hilum modice dilatato. Arbor parvula dilatato collari raris sparsisque aculeis. Primum folium pinnatum rarissime bipinnatum. Aculei infrastipulares gemini et aculeus interdum infrapetiolaris. Species afroasiaticae.

- -sche (discuss) 05:53, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

I consider this cited with the examples above, ignoring also the capitalization of Latin ethnonymic adjectives for which there is no consensus yet. The claim that the titles are English wholly and thus there would be English Afroasiaticus is of course absurd. Nobody ever thought it is English. Fay Freak (talk) 20:35, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Indeed it's cited: Latin is a WT:LDL and one cite (and only one) with Latin afroasiaticus was provided. --2003:DE:3727:FF66:943C:E458:552C:9B20 02:33, 21 January 2021 (UTC)