The Vocabulary of Science |
Contents
The Latin Legacy | 3 |
The Reinstatement of Greek | 15 |
Background to the French Reform | 28 |
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animal Aristotle Aristotle's baboon the bun Britain C. K. Ogden calcaneum chemical industry cilium circa cited cochlea common compound context contribution convey cuniculus eighteenth century English equivalent EXAMPLES Felis feminine flexional form flowering French gave the baboon gender genus German girdle 12B Gnathostomata Greek alphabet Greek language Greek roots Greek words Greek-speaking Guyton de Morveau h-sound initial internationally current Italian Italy labium Lancelot Hogben Latin nouns Lavoisier Linnaeus Linnaeus and Lavoisier Litopterna masc masculine meaning medicine memoir Moslem names natural neuter nouns and adjectives oxygen plant plural pronounced in Anglo-American reader reform Regnum RHOMBUS Roman alphabet rumino saccharo scientific nomenclature signs sing singular case form sound value Spanish species speech community stem substances suffixes sulphate sulphuric acid symbols Systema Naturae technical terms terminal thecodont usage verb vernacular vocabulary of science Western Christendom Western science world-wide vocabulary άκτις ύλη