28 Frederic E. Clements 



From the standpoint of the biologist, the application of the con- 

 nective -o- might well have been made universal, but in the case 

 of adjectives in -u?, the use of the thematic -v as connective is so 

 invariable that the addition of an -o, as it is found in noun sterns 

 of the same sort, was felt to be unwarranted. 



I. Nouns. 



i. First declension; nominative singular feminine, -a, -rj; mas- 

 culine, -as, -775. The stems of this declension are all orig- 

 inally in -a, which is often modified into -77. In feminines, 

 the stem is identical with the nominative singular; in mas- 

 culines, the stem is obtained by dropping the termination, 

 -o-, of the nominative. 1 



TreTp(a)-o-(f>i\r} (irerpa, r), rock, <i'Aos, loved, loving) Petrophile 

 ^te/o(a)-(o)-av0os (jpfpa, 17, day, av#os, TO, flower) hemeranthus, 

 -urn 25 



)- ai/ 0W )a (p-^X^P -' *i> dagger, 'di/flr/pos, flowery) 

 Machaeranthera 8 

 ?7)-o-0/H (<avr), rj, girdle, Op%, f/, hair) Zonothrix 2 



>vTov (/3opfas, 6, north wind, <f>vr6v, TO, plant) Boreo- 

 phytum 



<i;AAov (tTTTroVr;;, 6, horseman, <f>v\\ov, TO, leaf) Hip- 

 potophyllum 

 ycw-Trv^s (y^, yea, 17, earth, TT^I'S, >?, box) Geopyxis 38:-xo-, i; 



. 9 ill y T 



Second declension. The stems of this declension terminate 

 in -o, rarely in -w, and are obtained for composition by 

 dropping o- of the nom. sing, of masc. and fern, and v of 

 the neuter. 



fiio-<t>vTov (/3tos, 6, life, (J>VTOV, TO, plant) Biophytum 43 

 e<t;p(o)-av0os (Je'^wpos, o, west wind, aV0os, TO', flower) Zephyr- 



anthus 



TTOTa/io-yetTwi/ (TroTa/Aos, o, river, yetVwv, o, 17, neighbor) Potamo- 

 giton 1 8 

 <opos (S^dtros, >/, dew, ^>opos, bearing) Drosophorus 8 



1 The first number after a compound indicates the number *of times the 

 proper stem is found m composition in the Greek lexicon as the first term 

 Other numbers indicate the frequency of alternatives. 



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