Download or read book Composition of Scientific Words written by Roland Wilbur Brown and published by Smithsonian Books. This book was released on 2000-07-17 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born of the linguistic fascination of a noted paleontologist, Composition of Scientific Words includes a brief introduction to the history and elementary structure of English, Greek, and Latin, followed by a guide for the formulation of technical terms. The main selection, the lexicon, is an alphabetical list of key words. It gives their synonyms and cognates in English, Latin, and Greek, as well as occasional additions from among thirty-eight other languages. This section is a storehouse of fact and lore on the derivation of both everyday and technical terms. Numerous cross-references make the book fully accessible.