Quote Originally Posted by INoKnowNames View Post
Before school, I'd have thought you were making up jibberish... scientists have way too much time on their hands...
Latin, me lad. I'm not sure if that's the derivation of "suiformes", but both "ruminant" and "equidae" are both straight from the Latin.

(See: English "ruminate" (to think about, chew over), English "equine" (of or relating to horses))