There’s a species with the common name “Rusty Glycine” in the genus Glycine, which includes soybeans. The genus name is pronounced /glyki:ne:/ in Latin. But how would you pronounce the common name in English? I looked up “glycine” in Wiktionary, which does not list the English word as a common name…

In German it’s named ‘Glyzin(i)e’ - pronounced like “z”. Alternatively it’s called ‘Blauregen’, because of its nice hangig long blue flowers. (that roughly translated means ‘blue rain’). There’s less difficulty with pronounciation. ;)

The German wording derives from the synonym ‘Glycine sinensis’, which now is Wisteria sinensis in fact.

I would say glay-SEE-nee There are no silent e is latin, so the last one would need to be read also. The glycine (Glyzinie, glicinija…) name for Wisteria is probably from genus Glycine L.; which was used for species now in Pueraria (also twining fabaceous plants, vaguely similar to Wisteria), and …

As a common name? I pronounce it “Soybean.”

[image] oksanaetal: I’d say GLYE-seen. Every pronunciation guide I can find has it /ˈɡlaɪ.siːn/ (i.e. how @oksanaetal has it) or /ˈɡlaɪˌsin/. They are all referring to the amino acid of course, but I expect that is how most English speakers not trained in modern reconstructed latin pronunciat…

glycine the aminoacid is an English (or anglified latin) word, following english conventions and is prononuced glye-seen Glycine the genus is not an english word, although it is pronounced in english with english sounds, but the conventions are a bit different; Following how Cardamine is pronounce…

English-speaking botanists usually use the Traditional English Pronunciation of Latin to pronounce plant names. In this system, Glycine would be pronounced GLI-si-nee. It comes from Greek glukús with the nominative feminine ending of -inos. I believe Cardamine has the same ending, so it is pronounce…

Pronunciation of Glycine as a common name

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ljazz December 17, 2024, 9:53am 3

that is a different plant, in the genus Wisteria, not the soybean, Glycine max

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Pronunciation of Glycine as a common name

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