Botanical Latin : history, grammar, syntax, terminology, and vocabulary
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Botanical Latin : history, grammar, syntax, terminology, and vocabulary
David & Charles, c1992
4th ed.
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English and Latin
Includes Bibliographies and indexes
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Description
First published in 1966, this is a guide to aspects of Latin usage in the botanical field and is a source of information for gardeners, botanists, scientific historians, systematic etymologists and classical scholars. Now in its fourth edition, it summarizes the grammar and syntax and covers the roots and origins of Latin and latinized geographical names, colour terms, symbols and abbreviations, diagnoses and descriptions, the formation of names and epithets, and more.
Table of Contents
- Development of botanical Latin
- terminology
- the Latin alphabet and pronunciation
- grammar
- syntax and other matters - diagnoses, descriptions, punctuation, habitats, geographical names, colour terms, Greek words in botanical Latin, formation of names and epithets, prefixes and suffixes, descriptive terminology, chemical reactions and tests, symbols and abbreviations
- vocabulary - plane shapes.
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