Talk:draconcopedes

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draconcopedes

Created by me in July, to define Latin draconcopedis, because I thought that's how definitions worked. Does the word actually exist in English? Catonif (talk) 15:23, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

• Yep, cited. Surprisingly not hard at all to find non-italicised uses. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 15:54, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

The expected form, when borrowing the Latin into English, is draconcopede; cf. millipede. I spotted one book using this form: “It was conjectured that it was a Draconcopede that entered the Garden of Eden and tempted Eve with an apple from the Tree of Knowledge.”^[1] Elsewhere we find the singular draconcopes.^[2][3]  --Lambiam 18:40, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

Well, millipede and centipede are from nouns in -peda in Latin rather than directly -pedes (as are multipede for that matter, from multipeda, and cirripede, from Neo-Latin cirripeda), so not 100% comparable. The dranconcopes citations seem to be back-forming an (italicised) Latin singular rather than using the term as an English word, but draconcopede might be worth listing as an alternative form. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 19:12, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

RFV Passed Ioaxxere (talk) 03:20, 10 February 2023 (UTC)