epithet for "coastal plain"

[Thomas Lammers]

At 10:08 AM 5/1/02 -0400, Susan Farmer
>I have a friend who is looking at a potential new taxon, and he was
>wondering if there was an epithet meaning "coastal plain."  Many
>of the other taxa in this complex are geographically named, and
>he wanted to follow suit.  I told him that I would query this group.
>(I'm not a Latin Scholar, and wouldn't know how to begin to coin
>the latin from "coast" and "plain" if that would even then convey
>the same sense.


I got the following from:
http://cawley.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookdown.pl

Looks as though it'll require a compound maybe?

coastal

Tarentum -i n. [a coastal town of southern Italy] (now Taranto); adj.
Tarentinus -a -um.

plain

actor -oris m. (1) [a driver]. (2) [a doer]; esp. [a dramatic actor ,
player]; [a public speaker; the plaintiff in an action; a
manager of property].

aequor -oris n. [a flat level surface]; esp. [a plain] or [the sea]; rarely
[a river].

campester -tris -tre in gen. , [on level ground, flat]; esp. [relating to
the Campus Martius and its exercises and elections]. M.
sing. as subst., [a loin-cloth worn by wrestlers]; n. pl. as subst., [a
plain].

campus -i m. [a level space , plain, field]; esp. of [the Campus Martius at
Rome, as a place for various exercises, and for
meetings of the comitia]. Transf., [any free space, field, or theater of
action; any level surface]; poet., [the sea].

claritas -atis f. [clearness , brightness]. Transf., [clearness to the
mind, plainness; fame, celebrity].

claro -are [to make bright or clear]. Transf. , [to make plain to the mind;
to make illustrious].

clarus -a -um [bright , clear, distinct]; poet., of the wind, [making
clear, bringing fair weather]. Transf., to the understanding,
[clear, evident, plain]; of reputation, [illustrious, distinguished]; in
bad sense, [notorious]. Hence adj. clare, [clearly,
brightly, distinctly; illustriously].

dilucidus -a -um [clear , lucid, plain]; adv. dilucide.

dirigo -rigere -rexi -rectum [to arrange , direct]. Hence partic. directus
-a -um, [straight, direct; straightforward, plain,
simple]. Abl. as adv. directo and adv. directe, [straight, directly]. See
also derigo.

editicius -a -um [announced , proposed]; 'iudices', [jurors chosen by a
plaintiff].

editio -onis f. [the publishing of a book; a statement]; 'editio tribuum' ,
[a proposal by a plaintiff for the choice of a jury].

enodis -e [without knots; clear , plain].

enodo -are [to free from knots; to make clear , explain]; adv. from
partic., enodate, [clearly, plainly].

evidens -entis [visible , clear, plain, evident]; adv. evidenter.

exaudio -ire [to hear plainly; to hear favorably , listen to].

exceptio -onis f. [exception , restriction, limitation]; esp. [an exception
by the defendant to the plaintiff's statement of a case].

explico -are -avi -atum and -ui -itum [to unfold , unroll, disentangle]; in
gen., [to spread out, extend, expand]; milit., [to
extend ranks, deploy]. Transf., [to disentangle, put in order]; of a debt,
[to pay off]; [to explain, expound, interpret; to set
free]. Hence partic. explicatus -a -um, [ordered, arranged; made plain,
clear]; also explicitus -a -um, [straightforward,
easy];adv. explicate, [plainly].

inlustris -e [light , bright, brilliant; clear, plain, evident;
distinguished, famous]. Compar. adv. inlustrius, [more clearly, more
distinctly].

inornatus -a -um [unadorned , plain; unpraised, uncelebrated].

liquidus -a -um (1) [fluid , flowing, liquid]; n. as subst. [a liquid]. (2)
[clear, bright, serene, calm, pure, evident, certain]; n.
as subst. [certainty]; abl. sing. liquido and adv. liquide, [clearly,
plainly].

lugubris -e [of mourning , mournful; plaintive, grievous]. N. pl. as
subst., [mourning clothes].

miserabilis -e [sad , wretched, mournful, plaintive]; adv. miserabiliter.

nudus -a -um [naked , bare, uncovered; defenseless, deprived; unadorned,
plain; bare, mere, alone, only].

ostendo -tendere -tendi -tentum and -tensum [to hold out , show, reveal,
present]; in speech, [to make plain, declare]. N. of
partic. as subst. ostentum -i, [a prodigy, portent].

petitor -oris m. [a seeker]; polit. , [a candidate]; legal, [a plaintiff].

planitas -atis f. [plainness , distinction].

planitia -ae f. [a level surface , a plain].

planities -ei f. [a level surface , a plain].

planus (1) -a -um [even , flat]; n. as subst. [a plain, level ground]; 'de
plano', [offhand, easily]. Transf. [plain, clear,
intelligible]. Adv. plane, [distinctly, intelligibly; wholly, quite,
thoroughly]; in answers, [certainly].

purus -a -um [clean , pure, cleared]. Transf. [without addition, simple,
plain]; morally, [upright, pure]; of style, [pure,
faultless]; legally, [without conditions, absolute]. N. as subst. [the
clear sky]. Adv. pure and poet. puriter, [purely, cleanly];
of style, [faultlessly].

queribundus -a -um [complaining , plaintive].

queror queri questus dep. [to complain , lament, bewail]; of animals, [to
make a plaintive sound].

querulus -a -um [complaining , plaintive].

rego regere rexi rectum [to guide , direct; to rule, govern, administer].
Hence partic. rectus -a -um, [ruled]; as adj. [straight;
upright]. Transf. [right, correct, proper; honest, upright; natural, plain,
straightforward]; n. as subst. [right]. Adv. recte, [in a
straight line; rightly, properly]; 'recte est', [all is well].

reus -i m. and rea -ae , f. [a party in a law suit, whether plaintiff or
defendant]; esp. [a defendant, accused person]; in gen.
[one bound or answerable].

rusticus -a -um [of the country , rural, rustic; plain, simple; awkward,
boorish]; m. as subst. [a countryman, a boor]. Adv.
rustice.

siccitas -atis f. [dryness , drought; sound health]; of style, [plainness,
simplicity].

siccus -a -um [dry; thirsting , thirsty]; of health, [sound; sober,
temperate]; of style, [plain, simple]; adv. sicce.

simplex -plicis [simple , single; unmixed, pure, plain, absolute; morally
simple, straightforward]. Adv. simpliciter, [simply,
plainly; artlessly; frankly].

subtilis -e [finely woven , slender, fine]; of senses, etc. [plain, simple,
unadorned]. Hence partic. subtiliter, [by fine links or
passages]; of judgment, [with discrimination]; of style, [plainly, simply].

subtilitas -atis f. [fineness , minuteness]; of judgment, [discrimination];
of style, [plainness, simplicity].

videlicet [it is clear]; as adv. [clearly , plainly, manifestly; namely];
ironically, [of course, to be sure].

Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

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