Re: Pantydraco and the worst dinosaur name

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>:

> Big failure at elementary Latin grammar in that last one. The stem  
> of ignavus ("idle, powerless, inept, weak, slothful, lazy,  
> cowardish; exhausting"; noun: "coward") isn't ignavu-, it's ignavo-.  
> There are no adjectives with a stem in u- (and very few nouns). See  
> also *Cristatusaurus* and *Lurdusaurus*, <sigh>.

Well, I guess *Cristatusaurus* could be analyzed as 'act of providing  
(something) with a crest lizard'.

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