The contribution of Murko’s and Pleteršnik’s dictionaries to the development of Slovenian botanical terminology

Abstract

This article presents nineteenth-century Slovenian botanical terminology as seen in the two major Slovenian-German dictionaries from that century, by Murko (1833) and Pleteršnik (1894–1895). Various sources are presented that are or could be the basis of the botanical terms in the dictionaries. The article lists all of the botanical terms with Latin equivalents in Murko’s dictionary. This is not possible for Pleteršnik’s dictionary due to the large number of such equivalents because the field was already advanced at that time.