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  2. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic ...

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    This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...

  3. List of continent name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    This was proposed by historian Leo Africanus (1488-1554), who suggested the Greek word phrike (φρίκη, meaning "cold and horror"), combined with the negating prefix "a-", thus indicating a land free of cold and horror. However, as the change of sound from ph to f in Greek is datable to about the 10th century, it is unlikely this is the origin.

  4. Greek language - Wikipedia

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    Greek has been spoken in the Balkan peninsula since around the 3rd millennium BC, [18] or possibly earlier. [19] The earliest written evidence is a Linear B clay tablet found in Messenia that dates to between 1450 and 1350 BC, [20] making Greek the world's oldest recorded living language. [21]

  5. Animal Planet - Wikipedia

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    The BBC maintained its 50% ownership in Animal Planet's European, Asian and Latin American channels, as well as a minority interest in Animal Planet Japan and Animal Planet Canada until November 15, 2010, [7] when BBC Worldwide sold 50% interest in Animal Planet and Liv to Discovery Communications for $156 million. [8]

  6. Hippopotamus - Wikipedia

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    The Latin word hippopotamus is derived from the ancient Greek ἱπποπόταμος (hippopótamos), from ἵππος (híppos) ' horse ' and ποταμός (potamós) ' river ', together meaning ' horse of the river '. [3] [4] [5] In English, the plural is "hippopotamuses". [6]

  7. Americas - Wikipedia

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    The majority of the population lives in Latin America, named for its predominant cultures, rooted in Latin Europe (including the two dominant languages, Spanish and Portuguese, both Romance languages), more specifically in the Iberian nations of Portugal and Spain (hence the use of the term Ibero-America as a synonym).

  8. List of organisms named after works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    "The name is derived from Godzillius, the largest known remipede and the New Latin word "gnomus", meaning a diminutive fabled being". [273] Pleomothra Yager, 1989: Crustacean: Mothra "In keeping with the spirit of the first described godzilliid, the name is derived from the Japanese horror creature Mothra" and the Greek word "pleo", meaning ...

  9. List of chemical element name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The Greek arsenikon is paretymologically related to the Greek word ἀρσενικός (arsenikos), which means "masculine" or "potent". These words were adapted as the Latin arsenicum and Old French arsenic, which is the source for the English arsenic. [28] Selenium (Se) 34 σελήνη (selene) Greek "moon" astrological; mythological