User:Pengo/Latin

Please help with Latin translations

Please help create Wiktionary entries for these Latin and Translingual words (taxonomic epithets)

2015 lists

• Common epithets — the most commonly found specific names in books. Similar ones grouped together. Ranked by popularity in books. Binomial examples given. Page: 1, 2.
• Missing epithets — the ones that don't have Latin/Translingual entries in Wiktionary yet
• Binomials found in books
• obsolete genus list — for reference

2011 lists

2011 Catalogue of Life:

Top:

• Most wanted — various short lists of epithets and related terms that ought to be added to Wiktionary.
• Most Common Epithets 1 — Which epithet is the most commonly found in scientific names? Which Latin epithet is found in over 2000 binominal species' names? This list gives the top 6000 most common species epithets, ranked by how many binomial names they're found in. (see also: Most Common Epithets contents page; Original Top 1000 list)
• Most threatened — Which epithets belong to the largest number of threatened species? Unfilled entries only. (quick updated 2015)

By Suffix:

• Epithets by Suffix (page 1) — for finding entries which share a suffix. Epithets retro-sorted from nausicaa to tausaghyz, (see also: Epithets by Suffix contents)
• -i, -ii, -o, -x,
• -ceps, -color, -cornis, -flora, -glottis/-glossus, -nsis, -pennis, -pes

By Prefix:

• Most common first four letters: nigr-, long-, flav- (May add more later. Please request others if these are helpful)

More info:

• Motivation — Why I made these lists. Also other details, what highlights mean, notes, sources, to do list.

2006 lists

2006 Red List species only (all categories):

• species latin 20+
• 10-19, 6-9, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1(A-K), 1(L-Z)
• Not in new lists: genus A-K, genus L-Z, variety names

Resources

• Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature
• Etymological Compendium of Cycad Names
• Wiktionary:About Latin — Editing Latin entries on Wiktionary
• Virtual Botanic Garden - most entries have explanation of epithet
• Dictionary of Botanical Epithets - mostly of alpine plants
• calflora.net - word meanings and name derivations of California plants
• bacterio.net - includes which declension
• troymeyers.com [1]
• other: [2]
• "Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington" (many etymologies)

Some books

• The Composition of Scientific Words. Brown. 1954. [3]
• A Source-Book of Biological Names and Terms. Jaeger. 1955.
• Botanical Latin. Stearn. 1992.

Wiki basics

• List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
• List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes
• Latin names of cities
• List of Greek and Latin roots in English
• Appendix:Latin Swadesh list
• Wikibooks:Latin

Books

• CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names [SLV]
• CRC World Dictionary of Grasses
• The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals / Reptiles / Amphibians
• Stemmata Latinitatis; or, An etymological Latin dictionary google scan
• The Scientific Nomenclature of Birds in the Upper Midwest. 2014, James Sandrock

Popularity lists

alexz / Mr.Z-man

• Tree of Life
• WikiProject Animals
• WikiProject Plants

More: Birds - Amphibians and Reptiles - Arthropods - Biology - Cats - Dogs - Dinosaurs - Equine - Fishes - Fungi - Gastropods - Microbiology - Molecular and Cellular Biology - Palaeontology - Primates

Assessment data (Wikipedia Release Version Tools)

• Animal
• Plant
• Australian biota

Scientists who describe species

• professional systematist, taxonomists, systematic biologists and paleontologists, ecologists, paleoecologists, stratigraphers, field biologists

See also

• Category:Species entry using missing Latin specific epithet and Category:Species entry using missing Translingual specific epithet. sorted by lemma form of the epithet. Anything with more than one use of the lemma could be considered a priority