Disputatio:Angiospermae

So far as I can tell from the other language wikis, Angiospermae is what botanists actually use... but shouldn't it have been angiospermata? --Iustinus (disputatio) 18:51, 11 Septembris 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering that too, but the OED says "angiosperm < modern Latin angīosperm-us (Hermann 1690), < Greek ἀγγεῖον vessel, receptacle + -σπερμ-ος, adj. formative < σπέρμα, σπέρματ-, seed. (Greek has also -σπέρματ-ος; compare πολύ-σπερμος or πολυ-σπέρματ-ος many-seeded; whence angiospermous and -spermatous.)" So it seems there's some ancient precedents for the -spermae ending. Lesgles (disputatio) 18:45, 27 Ianuarii 2017 (UTC)[reply]