[leish-l] Re: Leishmaniasis versus leishmaniosis

[Richard Ashford]

Dear all,

I have had so many requests for a copy of the Med Vet Ent article that it 
is possibly better to send it to the entire list, with apologies to those 
who have already seen it or wo have better things to do with their time.  I 
hope the central command agrees to pass it on.  If not I'll send it 
individually, as promised.

All the best,

Dick

--On 03 October 2003 18:33 -0300 jeffreyj at usp.br wrote:

>
> Quoting Jorge Alvar Ezquerra <jalvar at isciii.es>:
>
>> The sufix -sis in Greek is used as -asis  if the word is feminine or
>> -osis if the word is masculine. Leishmania is a feminine substantive
>> (the vocal "a" is the most common end for feminine words in romanic
>> languages, in Latin these words belong to the 1st declination, like
>> "rosa -ae", Spa. "la rosa") derived from a proper noun Leishman (whos
>> gender is not a questionable matter!), reason why the correct way is
>> leishmaniasis; for the same reason, there are diseases ending as -osis
>> because the origin is from a masculin word (2nd declination) and it
>> doesn´t mean any contradiction as explained.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jorge Alvar
>>
>>
>
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Please note new status and phone number:
R.W. Ashford
Professor (Retired) of Parasite and Vector Biology
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Liverpool L3 5QA
Tel: +44 151 632 2714
Fax: +44 151 705 3371
e-mail: ashford at liv.ac.uk
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