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Botanical Latin: History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary - Hardcover

Stearn, William T

 
9780715300527: Botanical Latin: History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary

Synopsis

First published in 1966, this is a guide to aspects of Latin usage in the botanical field and is a source of information for gardeners, botanists, scientific historians, systematic etymologists and classical scholars. Now in its fourth edition, it summarizes the grammar and syntax and covers the roots and origins of Latin and latinized geographical names, colour terms, symbols and abbreviations, diagnoses and descriptions, the formation of names and epithets, and more.

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Mr. Stearn delivers the History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary of botanical Latin with such lively erudition I often find myself foraging through this linguistic hortus botanicus for the pure word-empowering romance of it. -- Patti Hagan "Wall Street Journal" (09/01/1999)

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