INDEX
| Abbreviations and symbols, 6 | |
| Abundance, suffixes denoting, 44, 65 | |
| Accent marks, 22; accentuation, 58 | |
| Acknowledgments, 5 | |
| Action and agency, suffixes denoting, 44 | |
| Adjectives, Greek, 29; Latin, 27-28; comparison of, 30 | |
| Adoption of words, 37 | |
| Adverbs, 33 | |
| Affixes, 42 | |
| Agassiz, Louis, on emendations in nomenclature, 57 | |
| Agency and action, suffixes denoting, 44 | |
| Alphabet, letters of the, 18, 472 | |
| Anagrams, 39, 49 | |
| Analogy and precedent in the coining of words, use of, 27, 48, 52-53 | |
| Anglicizing words, 37 | |
| Anglo-Saxons in Britain, 8 | |
| Arbitrary creation of words, 49 | |
| Augmentatives, 44, 384, 460, 833 | |
| Bacon, Francis, on science, 13 | |
| Ball, Carleton R., on plurals of nouns, 55 | |
| Bibliography, 877 | |
| Binomial nomenclature, 36 | |
| Blackwelder, R. E., on gender of scientific names, 53 | |
| Botany and zoology, use of generic terms in, 54 | |
| Breathing, rough and smooth, marks for, 21 | |
| Brugmann, Karl, on origin of gender, 50 | |
| Capitalization of scientific terms, 58 | |
| Chandler, Charles, on pronunciation of Latin, 59 | |
| Class, classification, and order, suffixes denoting, 44, 207-208 | |
| Commemoratives, suffixes denoting, 44, 547, 549 | |
| Commercial terms, creation of, 42 | |
| Comparison of adjectives, 30 | |
| Composition of words, 38 | |
| Compounding of words, 38-42 | |
| Condition, suffixes denoting, 45 | |
| Connective vowels in compounds, 41 | |
| Consonantal shifts, 14 | |
| Contents, 1 | |
| Creation of words, arbitrary, 49 | |
| Declension of nouns, 22 | |
| Decrementatives, 470, 490 | |
| Dedicatives, suffixes denoting, 44, 547, 549 | |
| Derivation by use of affixes, 42 | |
| Diacritical marks, 21 | |
| Diminutives, affixes denoting, 44, 490 | |
| Diphthongs, 20 | |
| Diseases, suffixes denoting, 44, 273 | |
| Drewitt, F. D., on pronunciation of botanical terms, 59 | |
| Elements, chemical, 792 | |
| Elision of letters, 37, 41-42 | |
| Emendations, opinions on, 53, 57 | |
| Emiliani, Cesare, on nomenclature and grammar, 53 | |
| English language, history and nature of, 7 | |
| English, languages that contributed to, 11 | |
| Etymology of new terms, need to give, 54 | |
| Euphony in words, 35 | |
| Feminine gender, suffixes denoting, 52, 862 | |
| Figures of speech or rhetoric, 347 | |
| Foreword, 3 | |
| Formation of scientific terms, 33 | |
| Frivolous use of nomenclature, 36 | |
| Fullness and abundance, suffixes denoting, 44, 65 | |
| Gender, 50 | |
| Generic terms in botany and zoology, duplication of, 54 | |
| Genitives of proper names, 547 | |
| Geographic Names, Board on, 55 | |
| Geographic names, scientific terms from, 866 | |
| Gerundive, 31 | |
| Gleason, H. A., on pronunciation of botanical terms, 60 | |
| Goodwin, W. W., on pronunciation of Greek, 58 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Composition of Scientific Words:A Manual of Methods and a Lexicon of Materials for the Practice of Logotechnics.
Edition: Revised.
Contributors: Roland Wilbur Brown - Author.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Place of publication: Washington, DC.
Publication year: 1956.
Page number: 881.
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