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 stems 

 o'f the same sort, was felt to be unwarranted. 



I. Nouns. 



1. First declension; nominative singular feminine, -a, -yj; mas- 



culine, -as, -y]'i. The stems of this declension are all orig- 

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

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

 culines, the stem is obtained by dropping the termination, 

 -0-, of the nominative.^ 

 7reTp{a)-o-<f>LXr] {irerpa, r), rock, <^tAo?, loved, loving) Petrophile 

 ■^fi€p(a)-(o)-av$o<; (Jifiepa, 17, day, avdo<;, to, flower) hemeranthus, 

 -um 25 



fJ.axci.tp {a) -(o)-av6r] pa ( fJid)(aLpa , rj, dagger, dvOrjpo'i, flowery) 



Machaeranthera 8 

 ^<i)v(r))-o-6pi$ {t,u)vr}, rj, girdle, 6pL^, 7], hair) Zonothrix 2 

 ;8o/3£(a)-o-^iiTov (/Jopeas, o, north wind, ^vroV, to, plant) Boreo- 



phytum 

 hTiTOT{-q)-o-^vX\ov (tTTTroTT;;, 6, horseman, <^vXkov, ro, leaf) Hip- 



potophyllum 

 yew-TTU^t? (y^, yea, rj, earth, Trust's, rj, box) Geopyxis 38:y£0-, i; 



9 in y-q- 



2. 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 fem. and v of 



the neuter. 

 ^to-(fiVTov (/3ios, 6, life, 4>vt6v, to, plant) Biophytum 43 

 ^e</>u/o(o)-av^os (^c<^v/dos, o, west wind, dv6o<;, to, flower) Zephyr- 



anthus 

 7roTap.o-yaTwv (Trora/xos, o, river, yeiTwv, o, rj, neighbor) Potamo- 



giton 1 8 

 hpoa-o (jiopo? (8/)oo-os, vj, dew, </)opds, bearing) Drosophorus 8 



^The first uumber after a compound indicates the number of times the 

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

 Other numbers indicate the frequencj' of alternatives. 



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