User:Pro bug catcher/Etymology

 Finding the etymology of scientific names can sometimes be challenging, here are a few tricks I've gathered to help:


 * Understanding and Learning Scientific Names of Species by professors for the Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, explains some of the reasons etymology is important. The page also lists a few books that might be useful.

Online

 * Google (try for example Chrysiridia + latin), Google Books and Google Scholar sometimes have the answer
 * Online Latin-English dictionaries (but rarely successful).
 * Wiktionary sometimes works, if it does you often should link the word using the proper InterWikimedia link: [[wikt:]]
 * User:Pengo/Latin subpage
 * Dictionary of Botanical epithets
 * The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia available online

Books
(See User_talk:Pengo/archive_4 for attribution)
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