Women's names as epithets (aemula, glabella)

[Michael Schmitt]

At 14:22 02.12.2005, Christian Thompson wrote:
>....
>My question is a couple other names which look to me like they are
>also female fore names, but I can not find them in my Webster
>(English) dictionary as such. Google was of little help beyond
>finding some plants which have them as epithets and noting that one
>is a morphological term. So, does the taxacom community know whether
>"glabella" or "aemula" in other cultures have been used as female forenames?

Dear Christian, dear colleagues,

according to my dictionary, "glabellus" and "aemulus" are both proper
Latin adjectives, meaning "hairless"/"shaved" and "emulating"
(obviously the same stem), respectively. Thus, "glabella" and
"aemula" are these adjectives with feminine endings.

                                 Best regards
                                    Michael


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