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Many words listed as Greek roots are actually Latin. They are slowly being corrected. Do not believe what
you read online. Or here. Or Anywhere. Always check at least three sources.
If you receive this as a MS Word document do not change any fonts! The Greek text will go bonkers.
All letters with diacritics will turn into little rectangular boxes. These characters must be in Times or some
strange Oriental font, though some want to be in and revert to Lucinda. If you find a little square box, change
it into Times then Times New Roman font. Some double diacritics (aspirated rho) must be in Times. Times
New Roman is a little cleaner, a little less ornate, and keeps lowercase Kappa κ distinct from Chi χ, and keeps
Rho ρ on the straight and narrow. If a letter looks odd or out of scale, especially a vowel with a diacritic, it
may be in Lucinda, please change it to Times, then Times New Roman. It just works for most but not all
letters. Some letter/diacritic combinations may not change, some combinations are not available in some fonts,
including Times New Roman. Some letters, particularly φ, are available only directly from the Mac Character
Viewer (select all characters, European Scripts, Greek). If you receive a copy of this PDF with little
rectangular boxes in some Greek source words, MS Word has automatically changed the font; please email,
bring the entry to my attention, and you will receive a corrected copy. Variation in MS Word preferences from
computer to computer may cause font variations.
For most of written history, and especially in Classical Latin, the consonant v and the vowel u have
been written simply as v, which was for the most part pronounced as w. The distinction between j from i is
relatively recent also. Some data is occasionally cited in the old fashion, such as lolivm perenne.
ΑαΒβΓγΔδΕεΖζΗηΘθΙιΚκΛλΜµΝνΞξΟοΠπΡρΣσςΤτΥυΦφΧχΨψΩω
Please excuse the damage I have done to the Greek language, because when it comes to accents and
breaths, it is all Greek to me. Many scientific descriptive words of Greek origin are Latinized with the suffixes
-us and -um. In fact, more scientific root words are of Greek origin than of Latin origin (Williams 2005).
Botanical Greek is overwhelming for those of us that have never studied a language written in a non-Roman
alphabet. Many upper and lower case Greek letters have no apparent relationship, but then take a close look at
our Roman alphabet. (In both the Greek and Roman alphabets, the majuscule and miniscule letters are from
separate alphabets developed centuries apart, and merged much later.)
Roman alphabet equivalents of Greek names are being added. The goal is to give a letter by letter
equivalent of Greek, not to ‘Latinize” the Greek, as is usually done, another, intentional level of inaccuracy.
Transliterations are minimized but some are unavoidable. Eta with a rough breath, ἑ becomes he. Final eta is
usually ‘a’ or occasionally ‘e’ and when in doubt (often) may be noted as (η?). Gamma gamma, γγ is gg and
becomes ng; gamma kappa, γκ is gk and becomes nk; gamma chi, γχ is gkh and becomes nch, nkh (hard c);
gamma xi, γξ is gx and becomes nx. Initial rho, ρ becomes rh, medial rho rho, ρρ becomes rrh. Upsilon, υ
becomes variously y or u. Some sources maintain υ as u, even when most usage is as y, as in αχυρον, achyron,
or achuron. Chi, χ, becomes kh (or ch) pronounced as in loch.
Plagiary classical Latin plagiārius person who abducts the child or slave of another, kidnapper, seducer, also
a literary thief (Martial 1. 53. 9), in post-classical Latin also (adjective) concerning plagiarism (15th cent.) <
plagium kidnapping (OED).
Some of them will saye, seeing that I graunte that I have gathered this booke of so many
writers, that I offer unto you a heape of other mennis laboures, and nothing of mine own … To whom I
answere that if the honye that the bees gather out of so many floure of herbes, shrubbes, and trees, that
are growing in other mennes meadowes, feldes, and closes may justelye be called the bee’s honye … so
maye I call that I have learned and gathered of so many good autores … my booke.
William Turner (1551), suggested by A. W. Anderson (1950) in The Coming of the Flowers, (Retitled
as How We Got Our Flowers (1966) referenced in Jones and Fuller (1955).
The manuscript that follows is largely the words of others, and briefly credited in the bibliography.
There is no pretense that there is very little original thought here, and as I have researched this, I have found
the translation data are often word for word from one source to another source, and another, and yet another.
(“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” Einstein) Two wrongs do not make a right,
(but three lefts do) but as an analogy compare any entry in Merriam-Webster Unabridged dictionary with that
of the OED, or compare the etymology of the Freckmann Herbarium website with California Plant Names
(both are highly recommended, quite substantial works). This is merely a word list with sources and