Transgendered and re-flected borrowed Greek nouns in anatomical Latin

Abstract

In this survey, almost thirty borrowed words in anatomical Latin were found to differ from the original Greek noun in gender and/or inflection. A third of these cases were judged to be errors. The rest are long-standing or widely-accepted exceptions to the usual adoption rules for borrowed Greek words. Possible linguistic explanations for these exceptions are presented. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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