o-eheu:Caterpie - Metapod - ButterfreeGeneric Epithet: Erucella (”little caterpillar”)Specific Epith
o-eheu:Caterpie - Metapod - ButterfreeGeneric Epithet: Erucella (”little caterpillar”)Specific Epithets:Caterpie: Erucella filiproica (”string-shooting little-caterpillar”)”prōiciō, prōicere, “ - to shoot, to fire + “-us, -a, -um ” - adjectival suffix— > [ prōice- ] + [ o- ] — stems— > [ prōic- ] + [ o- ] — ending e in [ prōice- ] disappears before [ o- ]— > [ prōico- ] — new stem implying “shooting”— > [ filo- ] + [ prōico- ] — with stem of “filum ” - string— > [ filo- ] + connecting vowel i + [ prōico- ]— > [ fil- ] + connecting vowel i + [ prōico- ] — ending o in [ filo- ] disappears before connecting vowel i— > [ filiprōico- ] — new stem implying “string-shooting”= “filiprōicus, filiprōica, filiprōicum” — first-/second-declension adjectiveMetapod: Erucella transitoria (”transitory little-caterpillar”)Butterfree: Erucella papilioniformis (”papilioniform little-caterpillar”)Is there any particular reason for the -ella version of the diminutive suffix? Euphony, perhaps? What you have there is not wrong or anything. The most common version of the suffix for first-declension words is -ula, but Erucella sounds pretty nice and, I think, sounds better than Erucula. -- source link
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