Talk:nosema
Latest comment: 8 years ago by -sche in topic RFV discussion: April–December 2015
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Etymology_1 only. I cannot find any attestations of the word in English meaning "disease", only of a genus name. Leasnam (talk) 01:36, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- This is a bit tricky: it's used in English to refer to the concept covered by the word in classical languages (here, here and here, for instance). It's a little more clear in passages such as this and this that it's considered to be Latin, not English. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:39, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- Each of those five passages use the term in italics. That would suggest that it is a foreign word being mentioned in an English sentence. SemperBlotto (talk) 06:51, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- There were some epilepsy related sources that did not italicize (here) when I added this but they did not have a clear meaning about whether those were Latin transliterations of Greek or were English. I added a non-attestable cite of a English medical dictionary and believed that finding it in multiple dictionaries (e.g. here) would make it easy to attest, but it was difficult and I abandoned my effort. I still feel three attestations can be found but I don't have a clue about better key word combinations that remove the microsporidium and expose pathologies. —BoBoMisiu (talk) 04:46, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
- Each of those five passages use the term in italics. That would suggest that it is a foreign word being mentioned in an English sentence. SemperBlotto (talk) 06:51, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- I can find some books where 'nosema' is a synonym of pébrine, e.g. the History of Industrial Education in Japan, 1868-1900 refers to "the nosema bombics disease" affecting silkworms. Citations where it means 'disease' do seem to be mentions of Latin or Greek, as Chuck says; I tried quite a few collocations ("a nosema", "nosema of", "the nosema", "and nosema", etc). - -sche (discuss) 21:04, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
- RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 21:15, 26 December 2015 (UTC)