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In my later posting on the subject I based my arguments on the gender of
aerides
in the analysis of it's second component the ending -ides explaining
why aerides is masculine.
Jose A. Izquierdo provided another point from the Registrar's Notes
published in
NEW ORCHID HYBRIDS March - May 2002 REGISTRATIONS Supplied by the
Royal Horticultural Society as International Cultivar Registration
Authority for Orchid Hybrids:
<However, the genus takes its
<name from the Greek Aer, air, which is neuter,and this should be reflected <by the inflection of the specific epithet as roseum (neuter) rather than <rosea which is feminine. The Registar argues that the gender of the first component, the Greek Aer,
air, is giving the gender of the genus.
I don't feel very happy but I must correct the Registar, because the Greek
"aer" is not neuter. Aer is masculine
in ancient as in modern Greek.
So the genus aerides from its first component "aer" and from its second
component "-ides"
is only masculine and nothing else at least in Greek eyes or ears.
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