Aussie Finch Forum

BEW is the incorrect name. Dilute is right. Thanks for the info.

finchbreeder wrote:Colour varieties: .Colour varieties are: albino, lutino and rubino..Alba(Greek)=white. Luteus (Greek)=yellow. Rubor (Latin)=red. Some examples are: Albino Turdus merula, lutino Budgerigar, lutino Splendid, rubino Galah, rubino Bourke's parrot.
Correct use of Latin or not by some amateur and professional geneticists does not change the correct use of a language that has been around for over 2 centuries.
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At risk of being an annoying pedant, albus and luteus are latin, not greek. Ancient greek for white and yellow would be aspro and xanthos resopectively, more rarely krokos or chloros for yellow (though chloros can also mean green).
'Albino' started life as a loan word into English from the Portuguese slave traders, who used the term to refer to pale-skinned pink-eyed african people, and has since been generalised to other species.
'Lutino' and 'Rubino' are English neologisms based on the model of 'albino', and are therefore neither Latin nor Greek, but English words.
Correct use of English by some amateur and professional geneticists does not change the incorrect use of languages which have been effectively dead for 200 and 800 years.
(Ducks, runs for cover, wonders if that is too cheeky....)