Wilder, Neiival Temts. 243 



§90. It should be borne in mind that only the Latin 

 names in the first column have the sanction of the various As- 

 sociations that have adopted them. The derivatives and the 

 comments thereon do not constitute parts of the reports. In- 

 deed, as will be seen, there is room for considerable latitude of 

 opinion and usage ; my own views may be imperfect and even 

 inconsistent, but I think the analogies adduced are sound. 



§91. Englisli Plurals. — The parts of the brain are so sel- 

 dom named in the plural that a separate column is not given there- 

 for. Analogy with rmr.y, strata, fungi, algae 2indphonomenavjo\x\6. 

 justify the employment of the regular Latin plural in certain 

 cases, e. g. , thalami, epiphyses, hippocavipi, cornua, striata and 

 vertebrae. On the other hand, areas, vistas, hernias, emporiums, 

 lenses, geniuses, pianos, indexes, pericarps, angles, atlases, di- 

 plomas, and similes are precedents for calears, chiasmas (or 

 chiasms), falxes, hippocamps, insidas, mesencephals, ponses, ver- 

 mises. Bonuses would even justify thalamuses but the length of 

 the latter is objectionable. 



§92. Close resemblance of the Angloparonyms to the Latin 

 07'iginals. — ^This is so obvious as to hardly require mention. 

 With more than half, the two forms are identical in spelling, so 

 that the Latinity of the originals can only be indicated to the 

 eye by italics, and to the ear by the pronunciation now com- 

 monly adopted for Latin words. ^ 



§93. Hippocamp. — For this, as the Angloparonym of 

 hippocampus, there are many precedents, notably the follow- 

 ing: — antepenult, digit, impediment, diagram, telegram (which was 

 strenuously objected to when first introduced), epicarp and pen- 

 carp ; see my note as \.o peiicai'-d, '95, a. 



§94. Infindibulum. — If the part so designated were fre- 

 quently mentioned it is probable that either a shorter word 

 would be found, or the present name be paronymized as infiindi- 



1 The Angloparonyms of Latin words, even when orthographically unmod- 

 ified, are English by adoption and are to be so pronounced; to pronounce claus- 

 trum, clowstrooni in an English sentence would be as affected as to say maniorarn- 

 doom. As an English word oblongata has the first a as in mate. 



