List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
The list of Latin and Greek words in the biological systematics is the understanding of scientific names of organisms. The binary nomenclature and some names for higher taxa, such as for orders, based primarily on the Latin and ancient Greek.
When Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778, also called " Carolus Linnaeus " ) the books published, are now considered as the basis of the binary nomenclature in Western Europe was the Latin language of science, and scientific names were in Latin or Greek. Linnaeus introduced this practice.
Often, a generic name or a species name is simply the Latin or Greek word for the living, so canis is Latin for " dog ". These words are not listed in the list if they occur in only a few taxa. The term list contains words that recur in species of different genera.
In Latin adjectives three cases must be distinguished: If only one extension is specified, it is a single-ended adjective - the specified ending applies to masculine, feminine and neuter (example: velox; participles as reptans ). ( :; Borealis ,-e acaulis ,-e examples) If two entries are given, one for masculine and feminine, the other for the neuter applies. Three -ended adjectives all three endings genus are given.
Frequently Latin and Greek numerals are used as components of the type - epithet, when the number of a particular feature is characteristic of a kind. The number words are therefore pre- listed in the alphabetical list, reference is made to the numerical.
For simplicity, only partially called the root words.
List of words
Legend: L = Latin, G = Greek