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anthropo-latra,-ae , masc. (-Xdrp^^ov, masc, 



stem karpa-) , man-worshiper ; 

 cerco-pithecus,-i, fern. (ttiOtikos^ov, fern.), a 



monkey with a tail; 

 chamaer-ops ,-opis , fem. (a>^{r, oott-os, fem.), the 



wall-germander ; 

 dia-gramma,-grammatis, neut. (ypafipa, ypdp.- 



fiaros, neut.), diagram; 

 dasy-pus,-podis, masc. (7rou?, 77-0S0'?, masc), a 



kind of rabbit; 

 chama e-cyp aris sus , -i , fem. (icv-Trapta/ros, stem 



KVTrapicrcro-, fem.), cypress; 

 aego-ceras,-ceratis, neut. (/ee'pa?, stem icepaT-, 



neut. ) , goat's horn ; so also 

 rhync-ops,-opis, fem.; cyclo-stoma,-sto- 



matis, neut.; hippo-potamus , etc., etc. 



36 The gender and stem of the compound are the same as 

 those of its final element; the genitive singular of the com- 



37 pound is formed in the same way upon that stem; and if 

 patronymics were to be formed from such words, they 

 would be made by adding -i d a e or -i n a e to the stem 1 : e . g. 

 anthropo-latr-idae, chamaer-op-idae, dasy-pod- 

 idae, aego-cerat-idae, rhynch-op-idae, cyclo- 

 stomat-idae, etc. 



There are a few apparent exceptions to this in our class- 

 ical lexica, but they are only apparent: e. g. opistho- 

 domus, although derived — borrowed directly — from 

 ottutBoSo/aos, masc, is given (correctly?) as feminine. 

 Ao'yu.0?, when transcribed into Latin letters, is identical in 

 form with Latin domus, fem. (which is not derived from 



1 If the stem ends in a vowel, it will, of course, suffer elision before the suffix 

 -idae. The only other patronymic suffix in Greek is -imv, but it is of rare 

 occurrence except in proper names: e. g. arpuud-iiov, ostrich; izop<pup-iu)v , 

 the purple coot; and a few others. 



No regard needs to be paid to the Latin patronymics. The Romans had 

 no patronymic formation of their own, and when they came to borrow from 

 the Greek, their lack of consistency in following their models introduced a 

 chaos, out of which no rules can be deduced for our guidance. 



