Template talk:NL.

@DCDuring do you still want this? It takes more keystrokes to write subst:NL., than it does to just write "New Latin". This, that and the other (talk) 00:04, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Not really. But, how do I get categorization of etymologies that have New Latin derivation? For a while I could search for NL.. Now? DCDuring (talk) 19:17, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @DCDuring Category:English terms derived from New Latin? This, that and the other (talk) 21:41, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't understand exactly how to apply 'derived' (use of which is discouraged in its documentation), 'inherited', or 'borrowed' ("DIBed") applies, as most such terms (those not DIBed from Latin, Greek (directly or indirectly), or English or some other modern language) are coined morphologically from Latin, Latin-like, or Latinized components. Maybe I should just use mul and leave this to my betters. I had thought that etymology was an aspect of such names for which enwikt could provide a service not performed by most of the various taxonomic databases. DCDuring (talk) 23:33, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @DCDuring can you share an example of some entries to which this applies? I'd be interested to look. This, that and the other (talk) 05:30, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @User:This, that and the other I have the hardest time with specific epithets. When I was saw your ping I was editing [[morning glory]], which had one species with specific epithets the details of whose etymology sections that will give me heartburn when I try to create a meaningful etymology for them:
 * (nuttallianus, typical eponym, after the naturalist Nuttall). The resulting term is clearly New Latin (Latinists don't want it to mess up the purity of their language ("Latin s.s.") with scientific, medical, or legal Latin or even contemporary church Latin, so I can't call it Latin.
 * Other specific epithet examples are barbadensis (and many more toponymic derivatives), monocytogenes (Greek derivation), thiosulfatophilus, argenteopunctatus (Latin components, unattested in Latin s.s.)
 * For that matter, why do we have both a Translingual and a Latin L2 section for aeolicus? Why don't we have a Latin L2 for ? DCDuring (talk) 13:55, 9 February 2024 (UTC)