Talk:fœcundity

RFV discussion: April–August 2017
RFV for the "hypercorrect".

"hypercorrect" (cp. hypercorrect, Appendix:Glossary) seems to be wrong, because it's most likely not like some English-speaking people hypercorrectly and thus incorrectly changed e to œ or oe, but that œ or oe already appeared in Medieval or New Latin which lead to non-hypercorrect English spellings with œ or oe. While the spelling in Latin could sometimes be hypercorrect, it could also sometimes be simply erroneous, or sometimes simply be a medieval spelling.

Maybe the etymology should be extended or corrected like English fœcundity from Medieval/New(?) Latin fœcunditas/foecunditas, from Latin fecunditas, but that's not a matter of RFV but should rather be a matter of RFC or RFE. -84.161.4.63 22:35, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
 * has "fētus (foet-)" implying that foetus was or maybe is considered to be a rarer alternative classical Latin spelling.
 * has "fœcunditas" which could be Medieval Latin, and in New Latin texts one can find "foecunditas".

cited Kiwima (talk) 22:51, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 04:12, 21 August 2017 (UTC)