Talk:nippono-

RFD discussion: October 2016–May 2017
Not really convinced this is a Translingual prefix, so much as Nippon + -o- being used in New Latin compounds. Note that if this fails, its category needs to be deleted as well. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 20:17, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * It is rather a (New) Latin prefix. — T AKASUGI Shinji (talk) 00:43, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

No consensus to delete. bd2412 T 15:41, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

RFD discussion: September 2019–March 2020
I sent this to RFD before, where it only got one comment (Shinji, seemingly in favour of converting it to (New) Latin), and bd2412 closed it as no consensus. I'm not happy with that outcome, given the utter lack of people thinking this should remain a Translingual prefix, so I'm bringing it back. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 22:40, 9 September 2019 (UTC)


 * It occurs as the first component of the genus names, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . If a prefix only occurs in translingual proper nouns, isn’t it a translingual prefix? (I now think we should classify such genus names as well as specific epithets as New Latin, but there is no consensus for that.) --Lambiam 23:12, 9 September 2019 (UTC)


 * I notice that all of the genus examples are, while the RFD nomination is  .  I also notice that we have nothing currently at Nippono-.  ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 21:31, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
 * That’s because genus names are always capitalized. When do prefixes need to be capitalized? Apparently all English nationality prefixes, but this does not need to be so for Latin. Fay Freak (talk) 14:28, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
 * If the only instances anyone can find of nippono- are in capitalized genus names, then effectively lower-case nippono- doesn't exist. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 17:04, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
 * So why not move this to Nippono-? Nipponophobia? BTW, we do have entries and, but they are analyzed in terms of  . --Lambiam 10:21, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Also used in specific epithets such as nipponoborealis (Onychodactylus nipponoborealis) and nipponoca (Neostatherotis nipponoca) (entries in Wikispecies), nipponopilosa (in IRMNG), nipponoalpinum, nipponomontanus, nippononiveus (in Catalog of Life). DCDuring (talk) 00:18, 3 December 2019 (UTC)


 * RFD-kept. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 05:24, 23 March 2020 (UTC)