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A question about 'reptile and volatiles' to describe creatures
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I noticed in the Wycliffe Bible, in early Genesis, that the description of 'creeping creatures' and 'flying creatures' was 'reptiles and volatiles'.
I had not heard or read of bird species being called 'volatile' before. Apparently it is from the Latin volare, to fly, and comes through the French volatil.
'Reptile', I understand, comes from Latin, repere, to creep or crawl, then through Late Latin, reptilis.
I have not been able to find a similar -ile ending category for fish or for land animals which do not 'creep' or 'crawl'.
Can anyone help?
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I noticed in the Wycliffe Bible, in early Genesis, that the description of 'creeping creatures' and 'flying creatures' was 'reptiles and volatiles'.
I had not heard or read of bird species being called 'volatile' before. Apparently it is from the Latin volare, to fly, and comes through the French volatil.
'Reptile', I understand, comes from Latin, repere, to creep or crawl, then through Late Latin, reptilis.
I have not been able to find a similar -ile ending category for fish or for land animals which do not 'creep' or 'crawl'.
Can anyone help?
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Well, there’s “sessile” for plants. But I think the obstacle you’re hitting is the linguistic concept of “marked/unmarked”. That is “marked” things — things that have. specific words for them — are usually the “anomalies”, the deviation from the norm, that create exceptions that need to be talked about. The “unmarked” things are the opposite: the standard, the quotidian. For the audience or the Bible, farmers, herders, animal husbanders, game hunters, the four legged beasts and edible fish were the “normal” things they encountered in everyday life. They needed only words for not those.
– Dan Bron
8 hours ago
Yes...like ambulatory patients in a nursing home, or non-ambulatory animals (like "downers" for cows)--words for the unexpected, hmm. Well, there are some very specific words for types of animal locomotion in this article (somewhat unsourced): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_locomotion. Maybe it leads somewhere.
– KannE
3 hours ago
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I noticed in the Wycliffe Bible, in early Genesis, that the description of 'creeping creatures' and 'flying creatures' was 'reptiles and volatiles'.
I had not heard or read of bird species being called 'volatile' before. Apparently it is from the Latin volare, to fly, and comes through the French volatil.
'Reptile', I understand, comes from Latin, repere, to creep or crawl, then through Late Latin, reptilis.
I have not been able to find a similar -ile ending category for fish or for land animals which do not 'creep' or 'crawl'.
Can anyone help?
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I noticed in the Wycliffe Bible, in early Genesis, that the description of 'creeping creatures' and 'flying creatures' was 'reptiles and volatiles'.
I had not heard or read of bird species being called 'volatile' before. Apparently it is from the Latin volare, to fly, and comes through the French volatil.
'Reptile', I understand, comes from Latin, repere, to creep or crawl, then through Late Latin, reptilis.
I have not been able to find a similar -ile ending category for fish or for land animals which do not 'creep' or 'crawl'.
Can anyone help?
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Well, there’s “sessile” for plants. But I think the obstacle you’re hitting is the linguistic concept of “marked/unmarked”. That is “marked” things — things that have. specific words for them — are usually the “anomalies”, the deviation from the norm, that create exceptions that need to be talked about. The “unmarked” things are the opposite: the standard, the quotidian. For the audience or the Bible, farmers, herders, animal husbanders, game hunters, the four legged beasts and edible fish were the “normal” things they encountered in everyday life. They needed only words for not those.
– Dan Bron
8 hours ago
Yes...like ambulatory patients in a nursing home, or non-ambulatory animals (like "downers" for cows)--words for the unexpected, hmm. Well, there are some very specific words for types of animal locomotion in this article (somewhat unsourced): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_locomotion. Maybe it leads somewhere.
– KannE
3 hours ago
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Well, there’s “sessile” for plants. But I think the obstacle you’re hitting is the linguistic concept of “marked/unmarked”. That is “marked” things — things that have. specific words for them — are usually the “anomalies”, the deviation from the norm, that create exceptions that need to be talked about. The “unmarked” things are the opposite: the standard, the quotidian. For the audience or the Bible, farmers, herders, animal husbanders, game hunters, the four legged beasts and edible fish were the “normal” things they encountered in everyday life. They needed only words for not those.
– Dan Bron
8 hours ago
Yes...like ambulatory patients in a nursing home, or non-ambulatory animals (like "downers" for cows)--words for the unexpected, hmm. Well, there are some very specific words for types of animal locomotion in this article (somewhat unsourced): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_locomotion. Maybe it leads somewhere.
– KannE
3 hours ago
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Well, there’s “sessile” for plants. But I think the obstacle you’re hitting is the linguistic concept of “marked/unmarked”. That is “marked” things — things that have. specific words for them — are usually the “anomalies”, the deviation from the norm, that create exceptions that need to be talked about. The “unmarked” things are the opposite: the standard, the quotidian. For the audience or the Bible, farmers, herders, animal husbanders, game hunters, the four legged beasts and edible fish were the “normal” things they encountered in everyday life. They needed only words for not those.
– Dan Bron
8 hours ago
Well, there’s “sessile” for plants. But I think the obstacle you’re hitting is the linguistic concept of “marked/unmarked”. That is “marked” things — things that have. specific words for them — are usually the “anomalies”, the deviation from the norm, that create exceptions that need to be talked about. The “unmarked” things are the opposite: the standard, the quotidian. For the audience or the Bible, farmers, herders, animal husbanders, game hunters, the four legged beasts and edible fish were the “normal” things they encountered in everyday life. They needed only words for not those.
– Dan Bron
8 hours ago
Yes...like ambulatory patients in a nursing home, or non-ambulatory animals (like "downers" for cows)--words for the unexpected, hmm. Well, there are some very specific words for types of animal locomotion in this article (somewhat unsourced): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_locomotion. Maybe it leads somewhere.
– KannE
3 hours ago
Yes...like ambulatory patients in a nursing home, or non-ambulatory animals (like "downers" for cows)--words for the unexpected, hmm. Well, there are some very specific words for types of animal locomotion in this article (somewhat unsourced): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_locomotion. Maybe it leads somewhere.
– KannE
3 hours ago
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The words that you are looking for are natatile (for fish) and gressile (for land animals).
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has entries for both adjectives, defined as "Able to swim; swimming" and "Able to walk" (via cross-reference to the synonym gressible). The OED entry for gressile includes the following citation that illustrates the parallel usage with volatile and reptile:
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 193 Terrestrial. And under this term I would comprehend, 1. Gressile, 2. Volatile, 3. Reptile.
Gressile is mentioned also in the Dictionary of Early English, by Joseph T. Shipley (1955):
gressile, gressive; gressorial; adapted for walking. The simple forms from the Latin hardly survive in English (cp. couth), but we still use many compounds [...] Terrestrial creatures may be classified as walking, flying, or crawling: gressile, volatile, or reptile.
("gressible", p. 315)
Both adjectives are classified as "obsolete" by the OED, as is the "Birds, esp. wild-fowl." sense of the word "volatile". Regardless, if you're using volatile in the sense of "flying" and reptile in the sense of "creeping", those seem to be the usual terms used to complete this set of Latinate -ile adjectives for modes of animal motion. If you're not looking for these words, I don't understand the question.
Both words can be found alongside volatile and reptile in a Latin quotation from Gassendi in the book On Certain Modified Forms assumed by the Inductive Process in Different Sciences, by Robert Mortimer Glover (1837), p. 13.
Natatile is from the Latin verb nato "swim", and gressile is from the Latin verb gradior "walk" (the same gress as in the word progress).
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But it's a Latin quotation.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
ELU is about standard usage. DIY coinages have been deemed unacceptable before.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
But the Wycliffe Bible is still referred to reasonably frequently. A Latin passage in a far less well-known (yes, I've checked by googling) publication is not comparable.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
'I'd hardly call it a "coinage" when the word exists already in the relevant source language' is unscholarly. But the OED reference is a deciding factor; I can't imagine why you'd left it out of your original answer.
– Edwin Ashworth
7 hours ago
@sumelic - Can you provide a link to natatile? I just can't seem to find the right one.
– Justin
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Here, maybe aquatile would work -
aquatile (adjective)... (Entry 1 of 2):
aquatic
aquatile (noun)
plural -s
(Entry 2 of 2) obsolete:
an aquatic animal or plant
History and Etymology for aquatile:
Adjective
Latin aquatilis, from aqua
(from Merriam-Webster)
As you have said in the question -
I have not been able to find a similar -ile ending category for
fish or for land animals which do not 'creep' or 'crawl'.
It takes care of the -ile ending category (aquatile) mentioned above.
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The words that you are looking for are natatile (for fish) and gressile (for land animals).
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has entries for both adjectives, defined as "Able to swim; swimming" and "Able to walk" (via cross-reference to the synonym gressible). The OED entry for gressile includes the following citation that illustrates the parallel usage with volatile and reptile:
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 193 Terrestrial. And under this term I would comprehend, 1. Gressile, 2. Volatile, 3. Reptile.
Gressile is mentioned also in the Dictionary of Early English, by Joseph T. Shipley (1955):
gressile, gressive; gressorial; adapted for walking. The simple forms from the Latin hardly survive in English (cp. couth), but we still use many compounds [...] Terrestrial creatures may be classified as walking, flying, or crawling: gressile, volatile, or reptile.
("gressible", p. 315)
Both adjectives are classified as "obsolete" by the OED, as is the "Birds, esp. wild-fowl." sense of the word "volatile". Regardless, if you're using volatile in the sense of "flying" and reptile in the sense of "creeping", those seem to be the usual terms used to complete this set of Latinate -ile adjectives for modes of animal motion. If you're not looking for these words, I don't understand the question.
Both words can be found alongside volatile and reptile in a Latin quotation from Gassendi in the book On Certain Modified Forms assumed by the Inductive Process in Different Sciences, by Robert Mortimer Glover (1837), p. 13.
Natatile is from the Latin verb nato "swim", and gressile is from the Latin verb gradior "walk" (the same gress as in the word progress).
answered 8 hours ago
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But it's a Latin quotation.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
ELU is about standard usage. DIY coinages have been deemed unacceptable before.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
But the Wycliffe Bible is still referred to reasonably frequently. A Latin passage in a far less well-known (yes, I've checked by googling) publication is not comparable.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
'I'd hardly call it a "coinage" when the word exists already in the relevant source language' is unscholarly. But the OED reference is a deciding factor; I can't imagine why you'd left it out of your original answer.
– Edwin Ashworth
7 hours ago
@sumelic - Can you provide a link to natatile? I just can't seem to find the right one.
– Justin
7 hours ago
|
show 2 more comments
The words that you are looking for are natatile (for fish) and gressile (for land animals).
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has entries for both adjectives, defined as "Able to swim; swimming" and "Able to walk" (via cross-reference to the synonym gressible). The OED entry for gressile includes the following citation that illustrates the parallel usage with volatile and reptile:
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 193 Terrestrial. And under this term I would comprehend, 1. Gressile, 2. Volatile, 3. Reptile.
Gressile is mentioned also in the Dictionary of Early English, by Joseph T. Shipley (1955):
gressile, gressive; gressorial; adapted for walking. The simple forms from the Latin hardly survive in English (cp. couth), but we still use many compounds [...] Terrestrial creatures may be classified as walking, flying, or crawling: gressile, volatile, or reptile.
("gressible", p. 315)
Both adjectives are classified as "obsolete" by the OED, as is the "Birds, esp. wild-fowl." sense of the word "volatile". Regardless, if you're using volatile in the sense of "flying" and reptile in the sense of "creeping", those seem to be the usual terms used to complete this set of Latinate -ile adjectives for modes of animal motion. If you're not looking for these words, I don't understand the question.
Both words can be found alongside volatile and reptile in a Latin quotation from Gassendi in the book On Certain Modified Forms assumed by the Inductive Process in Different Sciences, by Robert Mortimer Glover (1837), p. 13.
Natatile is from the Latin verb nato "swim", and gressile is from the Latin verb gradior "walk" (the same gress as in the word progress).
answered 8 hours ago
sumelicsumelic
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But it's a Latin quotation.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
ELU is about standard usage. DIY coinages have been deemed unacceptable before.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
But the Wycliffe Bible is still referred to reasonably frequently. A Latin passage in a far less well-known (yes, I've checked by googling) publication is not comparable.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
'I'd hardly call it a "coinage" when the word exists already in the relevant source language' is unscholarly. But the OED reference is a deciding factor; I can't imagine why you'd left it out of your original answer.
– Edwin Ashworth
7 hours ago
@sumelic - Can you provide a link to natatile? I just can't seem to find the right one.
– Justin
7 hours ago
|
show 2 more comments
The words that you are looking for are natatile (for fish) and gressile (for land animals).
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has entries for both adjectives, defined as "Able to swim; swimming" and "Able to walk" (via cross-reference to the synonym gressible). The OED entry for gressile includes the following citation that illustrates the parallel usage with volatile and reptile:
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 193 Terrestrial. And under this term I would comprehend, 1. Gressile, 2. Volatile, 3. Reptile.
Gressile is mentioned also in the Dictionary of Early English, by Joseph T. Shipley (1955):
gressile, gressive; gressorial; adapted for walking. The simple forms from the Latin hardly survive in English (cp. couth), but we still use many compounds [...] Terrestrial creatures may be classified as walking, flying, or crawling: gressile, volatile, or reptile.
("gressible", p. 315)
Both adjectives are classified as "obsolete" by the OED, as is the "Birds, esp. wild-fowl." sense of the word "volatile". Regardless, if you're using volatile in the sense of "flying" and reptile in the sense of "creeping", those seem to be the usual terms used to complete this set of Latinate -ile adjectives for modes of animal motion. If you're not looking for these words, I don't understand the question.
Both words can be found alongside volatile and reptile in a Latin quotation from Gassendi in the book On Certain Modified Forms assumed by the Inductive Process in Different Sciences, by Robert Mortimer Glover (1837), p. 13.
Natatile is from the Latin verb nato "swim", and gressile is from the Latin verb gradior "walk" (the same gress as in the word progress).
answered 8 hours ago
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The words that you are looking for are natatile (for fish) and gressile (for land animals).
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has entries for both adjectives, defined as "Able to swim; swimming" and "Able to walk" (via cross-reference to the synonym gressible). The OED entry for gressile includes the following citation that illustrates the parallel usage with volatile and reptile:
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 193 Terrestrial. And under this term I would comprehend, 1. Gressile, 2. Volatile, 3. Reptile.
Gressile is mentioned also in the Dictionary of Early English, by Joseph T. Shipley (1955):
gressile, gressive; gressorial; adapted for walking. The simple forms from the Latin hardly survive in English (cp. couth), but we still use many compounds [...] Terrestrial creatures may be classified as walking, flying, or crawling: gressile, volatile, or reptile.
("gressible", p. 315)
Both adjectives are classified as "obsolete" by the OED, as is the "Birds, esp. wild-fowl." sense of the word "volatile". Regardless, if you're using volatile in the sense of "flying" and reptile in the sense of "creeping", those seem to be the usual terms used to complete this set of Latinate -ile adjectives for modes of animal motion. If you're not looking for these words, I don't understand the question.
Both words can be found alongside volatile and reptile in a Latin quotation from Gassendi in the book On Certain Modified Forms assumed by the Inductive Process in Different Sciences, by Robert Mortimer Glover (1837), p. 13.
Natatile is from the Latin verb nato "swim", and gressile is from the Latin verb gradior "walk" (the same gress as in the word progress).
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But it's a Latin quotation.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
ELU is about standard usage. DIY coinages have been deemed unacceptable before.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
But the Wycliffe Bible is still referred to reasonably frequently. A Latin passage in a far less well-known (yes, I've checked by googling) publication is not comparable.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
'I'd hardly call it a "coinage" when the word exists already in the relevant source language' is unscholarly. But the OED reference is a deciding factor; I can't imagine why you'd left it out of your original answer.
– Edwin Ashworth
7 hours ago
@sumelic - Can you provide a link to natatile? I just can't seem to find the right one.
– Justin
7 hours ago
|
show 2 more comments
1
But it's a Latin quotation.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
ELU is about standard usage. DIY coinages have been deemed unacceptable before.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
But the Wycliffe Bible is still referred to reasonably frequently. A Latin passage in a far less well-known (yes, I've checked by googling) publication is not comparable.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
'I'd hardly call it a "coinage" when the word exists already in the relevant source language' is unscholarly. But the OED reference is a deciding factor; I can't imagine why you'd left it out of your original answer.
– Edwin Ashworth
7 hours ago
@sumelic - Can you provide a link to natatile? I just can't seem to find the right one.
– Justin
7 hours ago
1
1
But it's a Latin quotation.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
But it's a Latin quotation.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
1
ELU is about standard usage. DIY coinages have been deemed unacceptable before.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
ELU is about standard usage. DIY coinages have been deemed unacceptable before.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
1
But the Wycliffe Bible is still referred to reasonably frequently. A Latin passage in a far less well-known (yes, I've checked by googling) publication is not comparable.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
But the Wycliffe Bible is still referred to reasonably frequently. A Latin passage in a far less well-known (yes, I've checked by googling) publication is not comparable.
– Edwin Ashworth
8 hours ago
1
1
'I'd hardly call it a "coinage" when the word exists already in the relevant source language' is unscholarly. But the OED reference is a deciding factor; I can't imagine why you'd left it out of your original answer.
– Edwin Ashworth
7 hours ago
'I'd hardly call it a "coinage" when the word exists already in the relevant source language' is unscholarly. But the OED reference is a deciding factor; I can't imagine why you'd left it out of your original answer.
– Edwin Ashworth
7 hours ago
@sumelic - Can you provide a link to natatile? I just can't seem to find the right one.
– Justin
7 hours ago
@sumelic - Can you provide a link to natatile? I just can't seem to find the right one.
– Justin
7 hours ago
|
show 2 more comments
Here, maybe aquatile would work -
aquatile (adjective)... (Entry 1 of 2):
aquatic
aquatile (noun)
plural -s
(Entry 2 of 2) obsolete:
an aquatic animal or plant
History and Etymology for aquatile:
Adjective
Latin aquatilis, from aqua
(from Merriam-Webster)
As you have said in the question -
I have not been able to find a similar -ile ending category for
fish or for land animals which do not 'creep' or 'crawl'.
It takes care of the -ile ending category (aquatile) mentioned above.
answered 8 hours ago
JustinJustin
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Here, maybe aquatile would work -
aquatile (adjective)... (Entry 1 of 2):
aquatic
aquatile (noun)
plural -s
(Entry 2 of 2) obsolete:
an aquatic animal or plant
History and Etymology for aquatile:
Adjective
Latin aquatilis, from aqua
(from Merriam-Webster)
As you have said in the question -
I have not been able to find a similar -ile ending category for
fish or for land animals which do not 'creep' or 'crawl'.
It takes care of the -ile ending category (aquatile) mentioned above.
answered 8 hours ago
JustinJustin
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Here, maybe aquatile would work -
aquatile (adjective)... (Entry 1 of 2):
aquatic
aquatile (noun)
plural -s
(Entry 2 of 2) obsolete:
an aquatic animal or plant
History and Etymology for aquatile:
Adjective
Latin aquatilis, from aqua
(from Merriam-Webster)
As you have said in the question -
I have not been able to find a similar -ile ending category for
fish or for land animals which do not 'creep' or 'crawl'.
It takes care of the -ile ending category (aquatile) mentioned above.
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Here, maybe aquatile would work -
aquatile (adjective)... (Entry 1 of 2):
aquatic
aquatile (noun)
plural -s
(Entry 2 of 2) obsolete:
an aquatic animal or plant
History and Etymology for aquatile:
Adjective
Latin aquatilis, from aqua
(from Merriam-Webster)
As you have said in the question -
I have not been able to find a similar -ile ending category for
fish or for land animals which do not 'creep' or 'crawl'.
It takes care of the -ile ending category (aquatile) mentioned above.
answered 8 hours ago
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Well, there’s “sessile” for plants. But I think the obstacle you’re hitting is the linguistic concept of “marked/unmarked”. That is “marked” things — things that have. specific words for them — are usually the “anomalies”, the deviation from the norm, that create exceptions that need to be talked about. The “unmarked” things are the opposite: the standard, the quotidian. For the audience or the Bible, farmers, herders, animal husbanders, game hunters, the four legged beasts and edible fish were the “normal” things they encountered in everyday life. They needed only words for not those.
– Dan Bron
8 hours ago
Yes...like ambulatory patients in a nursing home, or non-ambulatory animals (like "downers" for cows)--words for the unexpected, hmm. Well, there are some very specific words for types of animal locomotion in this article (somewhat unsourced): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_locomotion. Maybe it leads somewhere.
– KannE
3 hours ago