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[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 12 points 4 days ago
[-] sundray@lemmus.org 2 points 3 days ago

The prefix ailuro- does mean cat, in much the same way that the word "felis" means cat.

But I'm not enough of a pedant to try to argue the point though -- in our crazy, anything goes modern world, people use whole words in place of prefixes all the time, and that's okay: languages change! Just like ailuro- used to be Greek, and then got pulled into Latin! ๐Ÿ˜†

[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

I guess it makes sense to use Latin in scientific names given how redundant it is.

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