[Taxacom] Lupuli radicibus

[Laurent Raty]

Unless I'm wrong about the source (but I doubt it -- Phalaena Lupuli 
Linn. 1758, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:508 -- 
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727419 ), it's an ablative plural 
(which you can't separate from dative plural out of context).
The problem is that we were not given the entire phrase, which is 
"Habitat in Lupuli radicibus", meaning "It lives in Lupulus roots". The 
preposition "in" requires ablative where it indicates a simple position 
(i.e., no motion), as here.

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On 12/05/2016 08:23 AM, Torbjörn Tyler wrote:
> It’s dative plural. I’m sorry, but I am not sure how that is best expressed in English. I guess it could be ”to the roots” and ”from the roots” as well…
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dative_case
>
> / Torbjörn