Talk:numericola

Translingual?

@DCDuring: As far as I can tell, this is not real Latin, but it may be taxonomical. Should we keep this? —JohnC5 00:19, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

I have found numericola used in Calotes numericola (twice in Google Books), where it appears to be a misspelling of nemoricola (“glade/pasture/grove-dwelling”) (from nemus (“glade, pasture, grove”). Nemoricola can also found as a specific epithet for 3 Wikispecies entries and for about 10 other species mentioned in Wikispecies genus entries. I did not find nemoricola in L&S or in Souter's glossary of Late Latin, but it might occur in Medieval or scientific Latin. I'd RfV this one and not bother entering nemoricola, even though it is used in the entry Gallinago nemoricola. DCDuring TALK 01:35, 5 December 2016 (UTC).

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numericola

As mentioned by User:DCDuring on the discussion page, this term seems to be a misspelling of taxonomic term nemoricola and not real Latin. —JohnC5 02:36, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

No, it's a made-up piece of nonsense produced by combining two morphemes that have no business being in the same word. There is a species of lizard called Calotes nemoricola that's been misspelled a couple of times as Calotes numericala, but that's not evidence for this definition. The other hits in Google Books are Italian scannos of numerico followed by la (no Google Books hits at all for any inflected form), and there are no hits on Google Groups (though I didn't check for inflected forms). It looks to me like somebody came across one of the misspellings and decided to add a Wiktionary entry for it as a joke. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:21, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

That's what I thought. —JohnC5 06:43, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

• RFV failed. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 06:01, 14 April 2017 (UTC)