Talk:apella

RFV discussion: July 2022–January 2023
Latin. I could find no record of "apella" being used as a common noun in Latin, or with the meaning "little bee". The PHI Latin Texts corpus and Logeion's dictionary index only show the existence of a proper noun "Apella". If this exists as a word, it seems it must be new Latin (and so should be marked accordingly), but I haven't seen a sign yet that it is used as anything other than a taxonomic specific name.--Urszag (talk) 13:33, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Looking more closely at the history of the entry, it looks like it was created by SemperBlotto who describes it as an "assumption" (User_talk:Pengo/Archive_0). I don't see any particular reason why a primate should be named after a bee and I find Pongo's speculation that "apella = small ape" more plausible; in any case, there seems to be little evidence that this was ever used as a real word in Latin and not just as a taxonomic name. I added an entry for another unrelated word found in dictionaries but I'm not sure if it's real either, or just a "ghost word".--Urszag (talk) 02:12, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
 * RFV failed. I removed the RFV template and moved the specific name to a Translingual header, and noted that it may come from Swedish (Linnaeus was Swedish).--Urszag (talk) 03:08, 27 January 2023 (UTC)