User talk:Sminthopsis84

Please accept my apologies about that. Abductive (reasoning) 01:56, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you and team today for Cucurbita, "about the genus of plants called squash, pumpkin, and/or gourd depending on local parlance. They are native to the Western Hemisphere. The fruits of this genus are an important source of human food and play several roles in human culture. We've enjoyed working on this for over a year and hope you enjoy reading it. There are many people without whom we could not have gotten this article this far; too many of them to list here."! - My small share: I took the Madrid pic. Rich Main page today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:31, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy whatever you celebrate today, - more who died, more to come, and they made the world richer. Greetings from Madrid where I took the pic of assorted Cucurbita in 2016. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:15, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

story · music · places

The pic I took of Cucurbita was replaced by white space - sad for me. - More images from the Madrid Botanical Gardens if you click on "places". - For a surprise, a Bach cantata is on the Main page today, where it was last year for the 300th anniversary, and they were too lazy to find something new ;) - Look at my story, and listen to the 3 whole-tone steps and the dialogues of Fear and Hope. - An open letter open to be signed (more info on the talk), - I haven't checked if you did, please ignore then. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:28, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Gerda. I've been keeping my head down after a long wikibreak and mostly wrestling with categories in Commons, when not despairing about international news to the point of incapacity. Interesting Wiktionary gloss for TFA. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 23:39, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I uploaded more pics, on a mountain in the sun above the fog. - Madeleine Riffaud - remember. - Do you think that you could restore he pic to Cucurbita, for my personal connection, and showing the great array - however small - at a notable place. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:40, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What an impressive life she had, and to keep going for so long after such experiences ... About the Cucurbita, I'll work on it over the next couple of weeks to see what I can do to polish. The photo includes examples of Lagenaria fruits, and it will be a slow process. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 22:24, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, also for the caption fix! - I uploaded pics of a trip that was a 10-day celebration of a 16 November event, but the day was also when a dear friend died. We sang Hevenu shalom aleichem at his funeral yesterday, and it was good. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:13, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:35, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Sminthopsis84, I saw that you have added a long time ago "pachy- meaning thick or stout, and Latin caulis meaning the stem." in pachycaul. Does Stearn specifically mention this full compound and does he specifically mention caulis for this specific compound? I have browsed my third edition of Stearn and currently I can not find the specific etymological explanation. I would expect that the second part would be derived from Greek καυλός instead of Latin caulis as the first part of the compound is also Greek (παχύς). The Oxford English Dictionary seems to agree as it writes: 'Etymons: pachy- comb. form, Greek καυλός'. So, I would like to hear what Stearn actually said on this issue. Thanks in advance. Wimpus (talk) 08:49, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Wimpus: I don't have my 4th edition to hand, so am using the Internet Archive 3rd edition No, he doesn't mention that exact compound, but he does mention that both Latin and Greek compounds can use -caulis.

• page 529 thick-: in L. comp., crassi-, in Gk. comp., pachy-; crassifolius, pachyphyllus
• page 399 Caulis (s.m. III. vii): stem, q.v.
• page 519 stem: caulis ... -stemmed: in Gk. and L. comp., -caulis

Sminthopsis84 (talk) 09:38, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your response. In this case, Stearn doesn't actually explain the full compound and that makes it difficult to refer to Stearn for explaining pachycaul. The label on p. 519 (In Gk. ... Comp.) is also confusing, as the mentioned erytbrocaulis is actually derived from Greek (ἐρυθρός) and Latin (caulis) and is thereby not a fully Greek or Greek-derived compound. The explanation from OED seems more appropriate ('Etymons: pachy- comb. form, Greek καυλός'), although mentioning "pachy- comb. form" without mentioning that the first part is derived from "pachys (παχύς)" seems rather odd. Wimpus (talk) 10:06, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]