So you think YOU know the Worst Latin Name?

[@darthplagueis13]

You just know that the scientist who named something after that welsh place probably didn't even find it there first but realized the opportunity and just claimed that that's the place where he had discovered it, as opposed to the three syllable village that's just five miles away.

[@joshuasgameplays9850]

I would totally do that if I were them.

[@StuffandThings_]

Scientists when discovering Coprosma foetidissima: uh oh, stinky

[@danstratyt]

Those pronunciations of the tongue twisters were Matt Rose level, kudos!

[@NeonPickless]

Matt Rose watcher spotted! SKULLEMOJIII

[@Ostralucia]

MATT ROSE REFERENCE IN THE WILD?? did not expect that on linguistics-ish KZbin

[@NotNochos]

SSKLULLL EMJOIIIIIII

[@Nauttp]

"Yes daddy i do" -Matt Rose

[@Thefrogbread]

This constitutes an emergency frog situation

[@eufalesio1146]

I still believe that the fact that the cladistic terminology we have allows us to say truths like "birds are lizard-hipped dinosaurs" is almost too good to be true. And also the fact that all tetrapods are fish

[@Jpteryx]

And crocodiles are false crocodiles (Pseudosuchia), and mammals are true basin lizards (Eupelycosauria).

[@zoroearc2582]

@@JpteryxAlso all animals that aren’t placental mammals (Eutheria) are fake

[@impishDullahan]

Birds might be lizard-hipped, but at least they're still bird-foot-boned, just like pterosaurs.

[@X3n0nLP]

There are some good fantasy villain titles in there. Like come on, "Gore King of the West Wind" is definitely some ancient barbarian lord.

[@Punabridged-0]

NGl, I firmly believe that 2:51 "stupid stupid stupid" just **has** to take the cake.

[@Imamotherfreakingavocado]

The scientist who found something in llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch realising he can do the funniest thing ever

[@darkonyx6995]

9:20 Funfact: "Pica" means "Penis" in Portuguese, so Magpies are the penis penis bird. Also, i just want to let you know about the existence of Futalognkosaurus and Pantydraco because of funny sex jokes, Suskityrannus because amongus jokes and Drinker because it amazes me.

[@xyz3524]

Does pikachu make a different sound im Portuguese Pokemon or does it say "penis"?

[@webkeylocknope9691]

​@@xyz3524 He says the same thing. Yes, it sounds pretty funny.

[@irondragon3430]

NOOOOOOOOOO

[@Oceanwaves-d8l]

Really?? Pica in English is an eating disorder where people eat stuff which isn't food (usually because of mineral deficiency)! 😂

[@DinisFaria]

*brazilian portuguese I am from Portugal and I've never heard that word be used for that purpose (I know it doesn't matter for most people, but I don't want people to think it is universally understood by portuguese speakers).

[@Xenyca]

I think Cryodrakon boreas (frozen dragon from the north winds) has to be one of the best names

[@joshuasgameplays9850]

That's hard as fuck.

[@binnsy6879]

Also another Azhdarchid pterosaur, Thanatosdrakon amaru, Amaru's Dragon of Death (Amaru is an Incan deity)

[@Xenyca]

@@binnsy6879 That's sick

[@CasabaHowitzer]

Bidens hyperborea made me laugh out loud

[@andrewgalbreath2101]

Yugioh card creators start furiously taking notes

[@pastelk]

I came to this video hoping amorphophallus yaoi would be mentioned and I'm so happy it was. the name is such a funny coincidence

[@radikaldesignz]

Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger

[@denifnaf5874]

Mushroom Mushroom

[@jan_Eten]

pakala aaaaaaaaaaa

[@ezra_kohl]

Hotwheels Sisyphus is a stand in part 9 istg

[@maurusII]

Just a small note, while belladonna is the actual word for nightshade in Italian, "bella donna" as two separate words actually means beautiful woman in italian, so I think it counts. Also, the second meaning of cornutus shown at 13:30 is still used in Italian; if your partner cheats on you, you are cornuto/a (horned), and your partner ti ha fatto le corna (gave you the horns)

[@Twapska]

I hate to say this but "Zuul" is also a pop culture reference.

[@elishafollet5347]

It comes from ghost busters right?

[@robinsea]

​@elishafollet5347 my first thought was zuul as in the dragon word for language/speech in the dragon language in skyrim (in game called dovahzu'ul)

[@jademonass2954]

my favourite has to be the recursive names "this is a fox, so im naming it fox" "but we need to specify it more!" "but its the FOX fox, the fox you think of when i say fox" "oh.. fox fox"

[@YC-km9pt]

Only after I watched the video did I realize that this wasn't a 4 year old video with 1.3 million views. Love this video man keep it up!

[@vegeta_2000]

actually they *GOTTA* name a mushroom pinguis papilla lactikaii tuber squirtinii

[@1_1bman]

aint that the thing the narrator said when introducing the krabby patty in the krusty krab training video

[@vegeta_2000]

@@1_1bman wh-wha-w-what..

[@vegeta_2000]

@@1_1bman no!

[@cevichegrace]

I don't think it's fair that phallusia isn't referred to as "girl penis." like Phallusia depressiuscula SHOULD be "Little Depressed Girl Penis"

[@Tuna_the_shark]

11:11 it's all fun and games until you hear "thy end is now"

[@ravelordnito9504]

12:03 Oh i know Graham Budd, I'll have to ask him where that paper on Hadranax dissapeared to

[@IC1101-Capinatator]

Turns out the PalAss website has a PDF of the paper 🎉

[@nuniyoa]

ohhh my god even more for my collection. excellent video, thank you so much for this and its prequel edit: small correction at 5:58 - "smegma" in this case comes from the acronym of fishes that make up this clade (synaphobranchidae, mastacembelidae, gasterosteidae, mugliformes, atheriniformes) which makes things even worse because they could have chosen like anything else - i don't blame you for the mix-up though since the info is a bit obscure 💀

[@refindoazhar1507]

Like they didn't invent that explanation only to make sure the name passed review.

[@zoroearc2582]

I think it’s important to mention that Caenorhabditis elegans is the most studied species in all of biology, which is why so many species being shortened to C. elegans is such an issue, especially because nobody bothers to say its full name (I spent five years studying a Biology and don’t have a clue how to pronounce Caenorhabditis correctly because not a single lecturer said it even once despite how often it was mentioned.)

[@zzineohp]

6:53 Actually, the classical latin pronunciation of soft c was /t͡ʃ/, you should be pronouncing that /vini vidivit͡ʃi/. (you might spell it as "VEE-nee VEE-dee VEE-chee"). Other than that, great video, Zzineohp! I showed this to my wife during mommy-son milky time, and she thought it was great!

[@YouAreAnIdiotVirus]

W

[@eyeless_person]

Really? I thought it was /k/

[@themubloom]

​​@@eyeless_person Yes, the classical Latin pronunciation of C is always hard no matter what vowel comes after. Ecclesiastical pronunciation is where C softens.

[@nanolfo_]

"the classical latin pronunciation of soft c was /t͡ʃ/" Are you sure you're not mistaking ecclesiastical with classical? remember Latin in the classical era was a phonetic writing system, 1 letter = 1 sound, only exceptions being "X" with 2 sounds merged into 1, and "QV" 1 sound in 2 letters. edit: spelling

[@TheAlexSchmidt]

In Classical Latin wasn't v also pronounced /w/

[@1_1bman]

yooo i showed up for mentioning c. elegans, the actual functionally worst name for being stupidly ambiguous. it's the radiohead of latin names for organisms, at this point. more about the disambiguation for c. elegans: you said "over a hundred" in the video, but it's closer to nearly a thousand just from copying the source text from the alphabetically sorted list on the disambiguation page on wikipedia and seeing that it's 909 entries long. fun fact, some of entries are links to *further disambiguation pages*. the list of largest disambiguation pages isn't still kept up to date. apparently, it was last automatically updated in 2019. in any case the disambiguation for c. elegans had a length of 144,034 bytes, just barely less than quadruple the runner up, the disambiguation page for st. mary's church.

[@DIOsNotDead]

11:08 you used the image for Love Love Deluxe from Part 8, but it's still a callback to Love Deluxe from Part 4, so yeah

[@amesstarline5482]

Potentially, a subspecies could be called love lovedeluxe to complete it.

[@elenaobradovic4181]

@@amesstarline5482That’s not how subspecies names are constructed, lovedeluxe would still have to come first

[@winzigerflashendeckel6894]

Love deluxe. Jom jom refrence¿¿¿¿

[@josephjoyce2760]

"Hitchhikers guide is obscure" my guy that is literally the most quotable book in the past 200 years

[@zzineohp]

its the 4th one in the series who read that far

[@haticeebrar8253]

@@zzineohp the ones who bought the collection version(the series published as a single book) not even realizing it was a series in the first place and while reading complained the whole time about the pacing because its absolutely not fit to be a single book

[@gizmo835]

Binburrum moltres is an actual species of insect named after Moltres, the legendary bird Pokemon.

[@joshuasgameplays9850]

There's also B. articuno and B. zapdos

[@TwiliPaladin]

Don't forget that species of cockroach named after Pheromosa.

[@Yvelluap]

6:36 you can translate that more accurately as ni>neither/not one, put>f*cking, idea>clue. so "not a f*cking clue"

[@zzineohp]

Wow great work mr. Yvelluap now the video's demonitized. Let's all give this man a big hand (/s) (/sarcasm) (/i was being sarcastic) (/i wasn't being completely earnest when I said that)

[@Yvelluap]

@@zzineohp i mean, it was in the corner already

[@BryanLu0]

​@@YvelluapKZbin doesn't scan the screen for swears. It's only checking the audio

[@StuffandThings_]

Funny thing about cycads, the trunk and apical bud of the plant is collectively called a "head" for... reasons? Tree ferns also get the same treatment IIRC, though weirdly I haven't seen this usage applied to palms. I guess somebody thought that all the leaves coming from the top looked like hair or something, but people do still use this term (ex. if a cycad has grown multiple trunks, people will talk about how many heads it has). So they _kinda_ have heads? Sorta? edit: weird terminology for plant/animal parts would be a great follow up video!

[@wrainb0]

this is the type of nerd shit i’d have heart eyes for on a first date. tell me more about all these funny latin names for species, and their translations. no pick up line could work as well as “hey, did you know there’s a species called “boops boops”?”

[@Actify143]

6:37 thats an… interesting translation of “puta”

[@thedanleyparable5347]

Fleckers hand of death is just the name of a dnd spell

[@adnzip8198]

That was the wrong picture of Love Deluxe. What you showed was actually a stand called "Love Love Deluxe", featured in Part 8. Also you pronounced "muda" wrong

[@thenatron6136]

13:23 DEMOMAN GAMING

[@taureon_]

DeGroot, the Death Reaper

[@EmperorTetraObsessedPerson]

What makes me a good Thanatotheristes? If I was a bad Thanatotheristes, I wouldn’t be growling here discussing it with you now would I!? Lets dooo itt! *drunken tyrannosaurid theme starts playing*

[@tomkerruish2982]

2:27 OBSCURE‽‽‽

[@danstratyt]

I think he was trying to say that the specific sequel novel (Thanks for all the fish) is obscure whereas Hitchhikers isn't. I hope he has heard of Hitchhikers.

[@tomkerruish2982]

@danstratyt He may have also simply been ironic. The phrase memorably appears in the first book.

[@danstratyt]

​@tomkerruish2982 I know it's in the first book. But yes, possibly ironic because it's such a referenced piece of media

[@loganwilliams444]

11:24 "rail" Astolfo 🤨???

[@dan_asd]

male chicken

[@nervmelissa8963]

6:10 hyperborea being a white supremacist thing is a very very tiny part of the breadth and history of the concept

[@NStripleseven]

13:02 Flecker’s Hand of Death is going directly into my next D&D campaign

[@latexu95]

2:22 The fourth part of the popular Douglas Adams sci-fi saga "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".😉🚀🌌

[@thesuomi8550]

2:22 that's not how you break those words down at all

[@YouHeardMeHoe]

how do you break them down

[@blockedjuser1272]

Like this how you brake it down: 🕺

[@latexu95]

7:20 That's actually driven from "suidae", a name of the mammal family to which pigs belong.🤔🐷

[@latexu95]

4:08 The Latin prefix "depressi" can also mean "flat" or "compressed".🤔

[@maxtube444]

4:04 as a trans woman im so happy for the inclusivity

[@ihateorphans]

congrats queen

[@cooldude6269]

Cathartes aura is the name for the turkey vulture, literally the cleansing winds. Poetic but just barely avoids being pretentious because it’s literally true

[@SolarSillySolace]

4:08 HE JUST LIKE ME FRRR

[@SolarSillySolace]

(The one after black penis)

[@IC1101-Capinatator]

I demand a sequel: Hadranax’s paper has been found, and it does actually mean “stout king of August”. Second, Omnidens got a new species (O. qiongqii) whose species name means “distressingly strange” which _should_ put it on top.

[@theatomicparticle]

4:45 I did research and the dinosaur’s first fossils were found near a love hotel

[@latexu95]

5:30 It also sounds like "mini mom".🤣

[@Sepi-chu_loves_moths]

cyerce elegans is my favourite c. Elegans, not funny just looks pretty. Also OMNIDENS MENTION YEAAHA super underrated cambrian goober imo, it was the biggest creature around at that time (1.5m long) and its named that because it has loads of "rows" of teeth, kinda like the sand worm from dune

[@idontknowwhattonamethis293]

I love anomalocaris so fucking much seeing it in this video was an absolute jumpscare haha. Also because I’m so desensitized to the name it seems very normal to me and hence more of a jumpscare to see it in THIS video 💀 anyways I love the reason behind the name so much (paleontologists only found fossils the front limbs and mouth parts for a long time, so assumed they were different animals- the mouth a jellyfish named Peytoia and the front appendages which when fossilized look a little like headless shrimp, hence the name weird shrimp for anyone wondering). I think it’s quite a good silly name!!

[@SlenderWolf109]

Not a scientific name, but IIRC according to an audubon birding book I picked up in Maui, hawaiian mynas' hawaiian name translates to "stink eater full of noise"

[@voncornhole]

Your viewers still making "sus" jokes in big 2024

[@agingerredhead9380]

amagus fune

[@CathodeRayKobold]

People are still Rickrolling in 2024. Among Us is no surprise.

[@soapsatellite]

​@@CathodeRayKobold At least the rickroll has staying power

[@wrenisprobablyb0red]

9:17 pretty sure Pison eu wasn't just because of the 2 letters, but also because of something you can make it sound like

[@jentegeeraerts1119]

I love videos of creators where they just scold their viewers

[@haku_68]

ASTOLFO IS FROM FATE AUGH

[@Thrashguy2000]

11:55 This… this tastes like Egoraptor!

[@flightlesschicken7769]

This one included multiple plant species, I am satisfied, 10/10 lol

[@theangrysuchomimus5163]

9:22 Speaking of Pokémon, have you heard of the synapsid named bulbasaurus? Edit: I feel like I need to point out that the paleontologists claim they named the bulbous lizard after its nose and not after the Pokémon. Also, Dynamoterror dynastes is a cool ass name, so I'm surprised it didn't make it to the end. It means "powerfull terror ruler".

[@DandyBlobber]

6:53 vini, vidi, vici is a quote from Julius Caesar.

[@GoodrichthysEskdalensis]

Little confused by why my entry was in the phallic category, but I'm still glad I got featured.

[@aguyonasiteontheinternet]

“strong bone”

[@GoodrichthysEskdalensis]

@@aguyonasiteontheinternet Fair enough. I just though it was a cool sounding name.

[@hadgeron9556]

Yì qí best dinosaur mentioned let’s gooooooo! Honestly my fav dinosaur and great to see it getting some recognition!

[@ishuboshi]

6:24 ah, i see you also learned reconstructed/classical pronunciation

[@seesaw41]

3:00 ah, a wren. Love it love it love it!

[@Oscar_Dogboy]

0:21 "Baby (Not relevant)" Poor baby

[@NoisyBones]

If I was a scientist who needed to make a name for a new species you bet your ass it would be something silly or badass! Mostly because it’s fun but it also makes people more curious to learn why it’s named that and helps make science something approachable! Also dryptosaurus aquilunguis is a really cool name imo because it translates to ‘ripping lizard with eagles claws’

[@nervmelissa8963]

0:17 little bro got the chromebook

[@deadheat1635]

but did you know about Hotwheels Sisyphus?

[@latexu95]

9:09 That place is known for the Guinness World Record of the longest official place name in the world.🤣

[@SiqueScarface]

9:25 The Bard would roll in his grave! Puck is the one of the main characters in Shakespeare's "A Summer Night's Dream".

[@mavisinfinity]

Huh…. CARACAL CARACAL!!!!!!!

[@loglorn]

The delivery on Chlamydosaurus does it for me

[@nulse_2]

6:37 actually is funny because the original expression "ni puta idea" literally means "no fucking clue" so "put" doesn't mean "have any", it means fucking

[@wildaviation5528]

Seeing that Finnish name sent me through a loop! Hyvä Suomea!

[@dagamerboi]

apopyllus shows up and my btd6 addicted ass heard apopalypse (the game mode)

[@Tyrannosaurus_Wrexx]

7:09 I’m *also* not a beetle

[@Thegoopguy]

"prehensile penis" was not something i was expecting to hear today

[@alecity4877]

I never thought Priapus could be someone to turn to find a more safe for work god. Thanks for telling me about Kurupi.

[@lemonlordminecraft]

I do wish you’d put some more emphasis on which names are outdated or historical names and which are the current nomenclature. Noticed this with the tassie devil as I knew its scientific name already

[@ProfessorRugops]

For a serious contender for best Scientific name we have a recently named Ichthyosaur from Iraq called Malawania anachronus, the generic name is Kurdish for swimmer and the specific is basic Greek for displaced or incorrect time in reference to its closest relative being Ichthyosaurus itself which went extinct seventy million years earlier, put together there are a few ways to interpret this but my favorite is “The swimmer who left its time.”

[@jaspyjiindust.9227]

Loved the section with the coolest latin names but the entire video was very fun!

[@AnarchicCrow]

I'm late, but I can't believe you missed out Rubus cockburnianus (a bramble) that (if I'm not mistaken) has a cultivar named "golden showers".

[@jurassicfreak2579]

"Edmontosaurus longiceps"? I think you meant Edmontosaurus annectens

[@Itsjustacorpse]

11:12 hah hah funny judgement guy from ultrakill

[@SiqueScarface]

From Austria with love: Mantispa aphavexelte: If you speak Styrian dialect, you note that "aphavexelte" means "a vawechselte" or "a misidentified one" - which indeed, it was. Denhama aussa: Again Austrian dialect, "Den hama aussa" means "We got this one". Apparently, it took some time to identify this. Not so much love from Germany though: Delitzschala bitterfeldensis (the oldest fossil of a winged insect that we know of). Try to say this one three times in a row! By the way, Delitzsch and Bitterfeld are two small towns about 150 km Southwest of Berlin.

[@SolarSillySolace]

6:00 only real ones got parappa the rapper nostalgia.

[@raymiemiller1455]

The bird you showed when talking about Turdus is a Wood Thrush, which is not in the genus Turdus (the latin name is Hylocichla mustelina).

[@dialog_box]

Omnidens amplus goes fucking hard

[@fuzzy9429]

That one abelisaurid probably has the most cursed name and origin of its name

[@mailcs06]

Hotwheels Sisyphus is really funny but I will agree it’s kind of stupid as a “Latin” name

[@maciejadamczyk8033]

There is also a latin name Smok Wawelski from Polish, in which it means "TThe Dragon of the Wawel Castle"

[@brendanhorner5727]

Brachiosaurus I believe is referring to arm as in the arm of a crane

[@devilishjester7718]

6:32 to be fair, they probably wanted to avoid jinxing it

[@latexu95]

3:49 How can a fungus be immoral?🤔🍄

[@NahMyTurn]

8:01 aye, my name is there:)

[@LangThoughts]

On the List of Organisms named after Harry Potter, I found a wasp named Alastor moody, the genus was preexisting, and the specific name made on purpose to honor the Potter character Alastor Moody. What makes this so hilarious is that Alastor is a genus of Potter Wasps, meaning A. moody is a Potter named after a Harry Potter character.

[@eurydice2322]

Cryodrakon borealis is by far the hardest Latin name imo, frozen dragon of the North it doesn't get sicker than that plus it's a massive azhdarchid

[@Exquailibur]

The beetle named after Hitler might actually have the worst name, it just is the Hitler beetle now.

[@SirPingoo]

Ha ha, Pinus Nigra