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<blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3186708" data-attributes="member: 24811"><p>"SAMMET, Sammt, Samt" <a href="http://woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB/?sigle=DWB&mode=Vernetzung&lemid=GS01491#XGS01491" target="_blank">in <em>Das Deutsches Wörterbuch</em></a>.</p><p></p><p>How the word was used in Latin texts (<em>fide</em> Google Books; I added approximate translations--with <em>sammetinus</em> simply anglicized into "sammetine"; and, where possible, also a link to an image of what I think is described; I give no guarantee that my ability of finding the current valid name of staphylinid beetles described in Latin in 19th-C books is infallible, though <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />):</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Christoph Mayr<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=dllBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA430&dq=sammetinae&hl=en&sa=X&ei=P4EIVcbdE_GS7AaR6IDICg&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=sammetinae&f=false" target="_blank"><em>nigredinis sammetinis obscurioris</em></a> = "of a darker sammetine blackness" (<a href="http://wiki.web.ru/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Metacinnabarite.jpg" target="_blank"><em>Aethiops mineralis</em> AKA metacinnabarite</a>)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=8kpfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA338&dq=sammetini&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mVYJVcH0O6eQ7AbhoYEY&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sammetini&f=false" target="_blank"><em>coloris vegete rubri sammetini</em></a> = "of a lively sammetine red colour" (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Red_lead.jpg" target="_blank">red minium</a>)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=TWZ3Bdpv6IcC&pg=PA468&dq=sammetini#v=onepage&q=sammetini&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Sit coloris sammetini e fusco rubicundi</em></a> = "It should be of a sammetine tone of dark red" (<a href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=183&u=12781761" target="_blank">kermes mineral AKA oxysulfide of antimony</a>)</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Alexander von Nordmann<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=dXIhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA57&dq=sammetina&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6VUJVYDyM6-M7Aa49ICwCQ&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sammetina&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Abdomen [...] linea longitudinali nigra-sub-sammetina certo situ conspicua</em></a> = "Abdomen [...] with a longitudinal sammetinish-black line apparent in a certain place" (<a href="http://bugguide.net/node/view/305908/bgpage" target="_blank"><em>Platydracus phoenicurus</em></a>)</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=bow5BR8hsl0C&pg=PT80&dq=sammetino&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_mIIVeC2L42P7Aa4uoHYDA&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=sammetino&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Verucae plurimae supra puncto albo notatae sunt, quaedam autem puncto sammetino-fusco, nonnullae pluribus talium punctorum.</em></a> = "Most warts are marked above with a white dot, some however with a sammetine-brown dot, a few with several such dots." (<a href="http://s325.photobucket.com/user/Mourits95/media/_B4N6238.jpg.html" target="_blank">Green Toad</a>)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=701gAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA166&dq=sammetinum&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8mEIVZuHKMGP7Abph4CQAg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sammetinum&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Scutellum nigro-sammetinum</em></a> = "Scutellum sammetine-black" (<em><a href="http://xespok.net/coleoptera/main.php/v/Staphylinidae/Staphylininae/Abemus/Abemus_chloropterus_53116.jpg.html" target="_blank">Abemus chloropterus</a></em>)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=U8_C5yZhe9MC&pg=PA165&dq=sammetinum&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8mEIVZuHKMGP7Abph4CQAg&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=sammetinum&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Scutellum nigrum, medio sammetinum</em></a> = "Scutellum black, in the middle sammetine" (<a href="http://bugguide.net/node/view/731172/bgimage" target="_blank"><em>Platydracus maculosus</em></a>)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=wek0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA13&dq=sammetinum&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8mEIVZuHKMGP7Abph4CQAg&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=sammetinum&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Scutellum triangulare, nigro-sammetinum</em></a> = "Scutellum triangular, sammetine-black" (<em><a href="http://www.kerbtier.de/Pages/Fotos/FotoLargeN/Staphylinidae/Sepedophilus-testaceus-n.jpg" target="_blank">Spedophilus pubescens = S. testaceus</a></em>)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=701gAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA13&dq=sammetini&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mVYJVcH0O6eQ7AbhoYEY&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=sammetini&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Abdomen [...] punctis interdum majoribus nigro sammetinis duobus segmenti singularis</em></a> = "Abdomen [...] occasionally with two larger sammetine-black dots on a single segment" (<a href="http://www.kerbtier.de/Pages/Fotos/FotoLargeN/Staphylinidae/Sepedophilus-testaceus-n.jpg" target="_blank">the same</a>)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=yRIAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA120&dq=sammetinis&hl=en&sa=X&ei=j1cJVZvDBqir7Ab4vYCYAQ&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sammetinis&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Thorax [...] niger, maculis sammetinis, viridi-flauis vel obscuro-oliuaceis, nebulosus. [...] Coleoptra [...] maculis sammetinis viridi-flauis vel obscuro-oliuaceis nebulosa [...] Abdomen [...] punctis 2 ante coleoptra testaceo-sammetinis</em></a> = "Thorax [...] black, with sammetine spots, yellow-green or dark-olivaceous, clouded. [...] Elytra [...] clouded with sammetine yellow-green or dark-olivaceous spots. [...] Abdomen [...] with two sammetine-clay-coloured spots before the elytra" (<a href="http://www.americaninsects.net/b/leistotrophus-cf-versicolor.html" target="_blank"><em>Leistotrophus versicolor</em></a>)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=yRIAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA109&dq=sammetino&hl=en&sa=X&ei=blUJVcWKO8Op7AbN5IGoDg&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=sammetino&f=false" target="_blank"><em>illis, quarum corpus vel sammetino-nebulosum vel villosum est</em></a> = "those of which the body is either clouded sammetine, or hairy" (this seems to be a character that <em>excludes</em> from the discussed family)</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Friedrich Justin Bertuch<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=SO9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT224&dq=sammetino#v=onepage&q=sammetino&f=false" target="_blank"><em>Alae & cauda colore nigro sammetino quem vocant</em></a> = "Wings and tail of the colour that is called sammetine black" (<a href="http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Image:European_Goldfinch.jpg" target="_blank">Goldfinch</a>)</li> </ul></li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="l_raty, post: 3186708, member: 24811"] "SAMMET, Sammt, Samt" [URL="http://woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB/?sigle=DWB&mode=Vernetzung&lemid=GS01491#XGS01491"]in [I]Das Deutsches Wörterbuch[/I][/URL]. How the word was used in Latin texts ([I]fide[/I] Google Books; I added approximate translations--with [I]sammetinus[/I] simply anglicized into "sammetine"; and, where possible, also a link to an image of what I think is described; I give no guarantee that my ability of finding the current valid name of staphylinid beetles described in Latin in 19th-C books is infallible, though ;)): [LIST] [*]Christoph Mayr [LIST] [*][URL="https://books.google.be/books?id=dllBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA430&dq=sammetinae&hl=en&sa=X&ei=P4EIVcbdE_GS7AaR6IDICg&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=sammetinae&f=false"][I]nigredinis sammetinis obscurioris[/I][/URL] = "of a darker sammetine blackness" ([URL="http://wiki.web.ru/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Metacinnabarite.jpg"][I]Aethiops mineralis[/I] AKA metacinnabarite[/URL]) [*][URL="https://books.google.be/books?id=8kpfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA338&dq=sammetini&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mVYJVcH0O6eQ7AbhoYEY&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sammetini&f=false"][I]coloris vegete rubri sammetini[/I][/URL] = "of a lively sammetine red colour" ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Red_lead.jpg"]red minium[/URL]) [*][URL="https://books.google.be/books?id=TWZ3Bdpv6IcC&pg=PA468&dq=sammetini#v=onepage&q=sammetini&f=false"][I]Sit coloris sammetini e fusco rubicundi[/I][/URL] = "It should be of a sammetine tone of dark red" ([URL="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=183&u=12781761"]kermes mineral AKA oxysulfide of antimony[/URL])[/LIST] [*]Alexander von Nordmann [LIST] [*][URL="https://books.google.be/books?id=dXIhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA57&dq=sammetina&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6VUJVYDyM6-M7Aa49ICwCQ&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sammetina&f=false"][I]Abdomen [...] linea longitudinali nigra-sub-sammetina certo situ conspicua[/I][/URL] = "Abdomen [...] with a longitudinal sammetinish-black line apparent in a certain place" ([URL="http://bugguide.net/node/view/305908/bgpage"][I]Platydracus phoenicurus[/I][/URL]) [/LIST] [*]Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst [LIST] [*][URL="https://books.google.be/books?id=bow5BR8hsl0C&pg=PT80&dq=sammetino&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_mIIVeC2L42P7Aa4uoHYDA&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=sammetino&f=false"][I]Verucae plurimae supra puncto albo notatae sunt, quaedam autem puncto sammetino-fusco, nonnullae pluribus talium punctorum.[/I][/URL] = "Most warts are marked above with a white dot, some however with a sammetine-brown dot, a few with several such dots." ([URL="http://s325.photobucket.com/user/Mourits95/media/_B4N6238.jpg.html"]Green Toad[/URL]) [*][URL="https://books.google.be/books?id=701gAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA166&dq=sammetinum&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8mEIVZuHKMGP7Abph4CQAg&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sammetinum&f=false"][I]Scutellum nigro-sammetinum[/I][/URL] = "Scutellum sammetine-black" ([I][URL="http://xespok.net/coleoptera/main.php/v/Staphylinidae/Staphylininae/Abemus/Abemus_chloropterus_53116.jpg.html"]Abemus chloropterus[/URL][/I]) [*][URL="https://books.google.be/books?id=U8_C5yZhe9MC&pg=PA165&dq=sammetinum&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8mEIVZuHKMGP7Abph4CQAg&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=sammetinum&f=false"][I]Scutellum nigrum, medio sammetinum[/I][/URL] = "Scutellum black, in the middle sammetine" ([URL="http://bugguide.net/node/view/731172/bgimage"][I]Platydracus maculosus[/I][/URL]) [*][URL="https://books.google.be/books?id=wek0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA13&dq=sammetinum&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8mEIVZuHKMGP7Abph4CQAg&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=sammetinum&f=false"][I]Scutellum triangulare, nigro-sammetinum[/I][/URL] = "Scutellum triangular, sammetine-black" ([I][URL="http://www.kerbtier.de/Pages/Fotos/FotoLargeN/Staphylinidae/Sepedophilus-testaceus-n.jpg"]Spedophilus pubescens = S. testaceus[/URL][/I]) [*][URL="https://books.google.be/books?id=701gAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA13&dq=sammetini&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mVYJVcH0O6eQ7AbhoYEY&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=sammetini&f=false"][I]Abdomen [...] punctis interdum majoribus nigro sammetinis duobus segmenti singularis[/I][/URL] = "Abdomen [...] occasionally with two larger sammetine-black dots on a single segment" ([URL="http://www.kerbtier.de/Pages/Fotos/FotoLargeN/Staphylinidae/Sepedophilus-testaceus-n.jpg"]the same[/URL]) [*][URL="https://books.google.be/books?id=yRIAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA120&dq=sammetinis&hl=en&sa=X&ei=j1cJVZvDBqir7Ab4vYCYAQ&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sammetinis&f=false"][I]Thorax [...] niger, maculis sammetinis, viridi-flauis vel obscuro-oliuaceis, nebulosus. [...] Coleoptra [...] maculis sammetinis viridi-flauis vel obscuro-oliuaceis nebulosa [...] Abdomen [...] punctis 2 ante coleoptra testaceo-sammetinis[/I][/URL] = "Thorax [...] black, with sammetine spots, yellow-green or dark-olivaceous, clouded. [...] Elytra [...] clouded with sammetine yellow-green or dark-olivaceous spots. [...] Abdomen [...] with two sammetine-clay-coloured spots before the elytra" ([URL="http://www.americaninsects.net/b/leistotrophus-cf-versicolor.html"][I]Leistotrophus versicolor[/I][/URL]) [*][URL="https://books.google.be/books?id=yRIAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA109&dq=sammetino&hl=en&sa=X&ei=blUJVcWKO8Op7AbN5IGoDg&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=sammetino&f=false"][I]illis, quarum corpus vel sammetino-nebulosum vel villosum est[/I][/URL] = "those of which the body is either clouded sammetine, or hairy" (this seems to be a character that [I]excludes[/I] from the discussed family)[/LIST] [*]Friedrich Justin Bertuch [LIST] [*][URL="https://books.google.be/books?id=SO9JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PT224&dq=sammetino#v=onepage&q=sammetino&f=false"][I]Alae & cauda colore nigro sammetino quem vocant[/I][/URL] = "Wings and tail of the colour that is called sammetine black" ([URL="http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Image:European_Goldfinch.jpg"]Goldfinch[/URL])[/LIST] [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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