Talk:oblite

RFV discussion: July–December 2024

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oblite

OED suggests only one hit Denazz (talk) 19:10, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Is the one hit for the oblite billbug? Justin the Just (talk) 19:22, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

It's "Thomas Fuller • A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the confines thereof • 1st edition, 1650 (1 vol.)." Denazz (talk) 22:38, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

What a neat adjective! Shame it isn't more used. I found a brief article on the oblite billbug, and used it to bulk up the Wikipedia article, but I don't know whether it's citable here—does a source calling the beetle by its common name count as a "use", or is it only a "mention" unless it says something like, "this billbug is very oblite"? Most hits on Google Books are for "obliterate" hyphenated, with some scannos for "oblate". P Aculeius (talk) 17:34, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

The common name is merely a rendering of Latin oblitus/oblita in the taxonomic name- it apparently has no meaning in English. The taxonomic name was short-lived, because it was based on Sphenophorus oblitus as described by John Lawrence LeConte- but the same species had already been described by Leonard Gyllenhaal under the name Sphenophorus coesifrons in 1838. When I checked Google yesterday, I also noticed a fair number of scannos for "oolite" with various diacritics. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:00, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

• failed P. Sovjunk (talk) 20:25, 13 December 2024 (UTC)