Timeline for How to refer to person-derived and place-derived species names
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| Nov 14, 2013 at 19:00 | vote | accept | Oreotrephes | ||
| Oct 25, 2013 at 0:34 | answer | added | Oreotrephes | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 0:13 | comment | added | Oreotrephes | This isn't a purpose-driven query – just trying to write a sentence and looking for le bon mot. As an update, I did find a few thousand google hits for "eponymous taxa", but also some criticism of that phrase; and nothing similar for place-derived names. | |
| Jul 11, 2013 at 20:20 | comment | added | Atl LED |
I think generally both could be called latinisations, as the practice with species names is to take the name and try to translate/modify it into an appropriate Latin genitive case. As far as a word the gets specific enough to reffer to eponymic latinisations, no I don't think there is one. I searched through the OED a few times but I don't think there is one. Do you have reason to coin the term? I would be excited if I was proven wrong.
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| Jul 11, 2013 at 13:14 | history | asked | Oreotrephes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |