RE: Re-emergence of lost features

["Jaime Headden" <jaemei@hotmail.com>]

<Can anyone tell me the meaning of the root words phorus and rhaco?>

*Rhaco* is combinative of *rhacus* or more properly, *rhakos* 
[*rhakhos*]. It's Greek for "spine" or "spike".

*Phorus* from Greek *phorein* [*phorhein*] means "to bear" or "bearing", 
as in Thyreophora, "shield bearers," the *phora* being a plural Latin 
form of the Greek.

*Phorusrhacus*, the bird, thus equals "bearing spines" or "bearer of 
spines", and the frog, *Rhacophorus*, means "spine bearer", or bascially 
the same as above - the difference is that one is Latinized Greek (the 
frog), the other is Greek rewritten into a Latin format without 
switching the terms (the bird).

Hope this helps,
Jaime A. Headden

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