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Specific names, subspecies included, are to be
expressed in the everyday common vocabulary of
Uniespo, as follows, with no exception to the rules: 6
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Dear reader, we appreciate that tackling Everyday Uniespo as well,
might be rather more than you’d bargained for! But do you really prefer
to have to cope with both a Greek and a Latin dictionary? The
compilation of a translating list Latin-Uniespo-English for epithets in
biontology is at the planning stage in the form of a database file, should
this need really be felt. So, in the meantime, the best course would be to
use the ITK handbook in conjunction with one of the many easily
obtainable Esperanto dictionaries — such as the two-way The Esperanto-
English Dictionary by Dr. J.C. WELLS, in the well-known Teach Yourself
Books, published by The English Universities Press; guaranteed a lot
easier to consult than a Latin handbook! The “old” Esperanto will serve
perfectly well for rendering epithets, until Uniespo-dictionaries become
available, since on the everyday level of usage there’s not all that much
difference between them, except for spelling. So, get gourself The Key
and an Esperanto dictionary — a small one will do quite well — and then
donate those complex Latin and Greek volumes to a teacher of those
languages.
1. All specific names, being adjectives, end in -A: so no more
doubt over which Latin declension form should be used —
they no longer apply.
rampans rampanta [“crawling”]
lacciferum lakoporta [“lacquer-carrying”]
gyratus shpirala [“spiral”]
2. As a wedge / linkage — obligatory for this particular
application — between the common word roots of a
compound vernacular word, use one of these:
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-A if the leading stem is an adjective:
picrococcus amarakerna [“bitter kernel”]
It is noteworthy that the NBN-Association has established a
considerable number of useful and pertinent new epitheta for zoology.
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