Talk:teguline
Latest comment: 5 years ago by Kiwima in topic RFV discussion: November–December 2018
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Rfv-sense - the adjective
I can find "Teguline clay", where Teguline seems to be a proper noun, and I found:
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- where the POS is unclear, but that is all I could find. Without a definition, it is hard to know where else to look. Kiwima (talk) 22:55, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
- To understand the adjective, you need to know that tēgula is the Latin word for "roof tile", and that it's also the name for a genus of marine snails/gastropods. Currently, they're classified in the family Tegulidae, but that was formerly (from 1971) classified as the subfamily Tegulinae within the family Trochidae. The standard ending for adjectives referring to subfamilies is -ine, so a teguline gastropod is a gastropod in the former subfamily Tegulinae. As for the clay, roof tiles were made from clay, so teguline clay would probably be a type used for roof tiles, or associated with roof tiles somehow. I don't think it's a proper noun. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:48, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
RFV-resolved The clay passes, the gastropods fail. Kiwima (talk) 20:39, 6 December 2018 (UTC)