Taxacom: Mandatory ending correction after 226 years of wrong usage - the Dasytes case

[Michael A. Ivie]

Define "the Dictionary" please.  I can write a dictionary, can we use 
that dictionary?  The use of "the" means there is a single one, the is a 
definite article.

Mike

On 1/29/2025 3:39 PM, Douglas Yanega via Taxacom wrote:
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> On 1/29/25 1:48 PM, Michael Heads via Taxacom wrote:
>> also it's plural, although the species epithets in Dasytes are all
>> masculine singular.
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> No, it is emphatically not plural - it is a noun in the nominative
> singular, as required by the Code.
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> Plurals cannot be genus names, though genus names might sometimes have,
> by coincidence, the same spellings as a plural word, or a verb, or a
> genitive.
>
> Also, Isidor neglected to mention, that the Code prohibits authors from
> determining the genders of genera when the name they use is a Latin or
> Greek word that *already has a fixed gender in the dictionary*. The Code
> explicitly states, in Articles 30.1.1 and 30.1.2, that only the gender
> in the dictionary is to be used. Paykull is not permitted to make
> "Dasytes" into a masculine word by power of authority - the *dictionary*
> determines the gender. Paykull made an error, and it should be fixed
> rather than perpetuated. Where the author CAN determine the gender is
> when a genus name is based on a word of variable gender, the most common
> examples being Greek adjectives, of which there are thousands of genus
> names based upon them.
>
> The Greek word ending "χαρής" (chares) is a good example - it is
> adjectival and not of fixed gender, meaning "delighting in" (e.g,
> δρυμοχαρής - drymochares - "delighting in the woods"). There are some 70
> genera with this ending, nearly all of which are masculine under ICZN
> Art. 30.1.4.2, though two genus names, Cecidochares Bezzi, 1910, and
> Limnochares Latreille, 1796, were coined with feminine adjectival
> epithets, and are therefore feminine.
>
> The rules in the Code are not especially difficult to apply or adhere to.
>
> Peace,
>
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