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Transgendered and re-flected borrowed Greek nouns in anatomical Latin
1Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Abstract:
In this survey, almost 30 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. Clin. Anat. 31:306-309, 2018. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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