Talk:inscripturate

Order of headings

For inscripturate (really for almost any word, although that is a separate conversation), it is part of speech which is more fundamental and governs pronunciation, not vice versa. If in doubt, consider the analogy of this word's coordinate term incarnate, where the adjectival usage can (as with many adjectives ending in "-ate") be pronounced either /-ɪt/ or (same as the verb) /-eɪt/. I would wager that inscripturate as an adjective can be pronounced either way as well (although admittedly it would be time-consuming to adduce proof, such as an audio clip of a British theologian using it adjectivally and pronouncing it the second way). Regardless, the part-of-speech designator, it would seem, needs to go first here. If there is any shuffling of headings to be done in this entry, we need the more customary format of "Etymology 1" to head the verb usage and "Etymology 2" to head the adjectival usage – and constructing an accurate etymology (other than combining English affixes and infixes) is a task up to which my extremely limited knowledge of Latin is definitely not... :-) --2603:6081:8040:E92C:6472:3CDB:7734:2B37 10:51, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Please see WT:ELE for guidance regarding the section headings. I don't disagree with your reasoning, but we try to adhere to that structure to give uniformity across all entries. JeffDoozan (talk) 15:19, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Understood – and thanks for the explanation. I'll try to do a bit of research on the etymology, so that the entry format can be meaningfully conformed to the standard. (I'm too cheap to pay for a subscription to the online OED, but I have an erudite good friend who I believe has one.)--2603:6081:8040:E92C:6472:3CDB:7734:2B37 00:29, 23 January 2023 (UTC)