Re: Ietf-languages Digest, Vol 165, Issue 21

Elizabeth Pyatt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.languages
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On Feb 22, 2017, at 4:31 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> I refer you to my earlier question to you - not yet answered - which
> was: "Which language are taxonomic names "divisions or variations


One could call this “Neo Latin” in that modern taxonomy includes vocabulary never used by the ancient Romans. 
However, new vocabulary conforms with the grammar of Classical Latin. Note than even Classical Latin borrowed words from other languages, but then reconfigured them to fit Latin grammar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Latin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Latin

An example of a neo Latin word is Vicipædia “Wikipedia”. Obviously there was no Wikipedia in the ancient world, but the current word Vicipædia is inflected as if it were a Latin 1st declension noun (e.g. in in Vicipaediam for “in Wikipedia”).

https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicipaedia:Pagina_prima

Hope this helps.
E. Pyatt


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