Re: -i? -orum? ACK!

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>:

> > A name may also end in -ii, and there's no real problem
> > with this, since it's usually done through a process of latinization of
> > the
> > honored's name before adding the final -i, so that Linné (properly,
> > Linnaeus)
> > would be stemmed as linnaei-, then add -i for *linnaeii*.
>
> Outright wrong in this case. The stem of Linnaeus is Linnaeo-, therefore the
> genitive is Linnaei. This can become a specific epithet (in lower case, of
> course).

Right.  "Linnaeus" already contains the "Latinizing" suffix -i- (it's the <e> in
the <ae> diphthong).

Nick Pharris
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan