How does one search *user* submitted reference articles?

Question

How would one search for reference articles submitted by users for a particular subject?

For example, I am currently looking for an article explaining the addition of the suffix "ura" to adjectives.

If such a reference article exists how would I go about finding it without one by one searching every article that exists?

Answer 1

I do not believe that you can search the Reference articles, unless some of them are discussions that were made into Reference Articles. I seem to recall threads asking that the Reference Articles be collated into a master pdf file that could be downloaded or made searchable, but I don't believe that it ever happened.

And if I am not mistaken, even the discussions are only searched by title, not content. For instance, if you searched for "ura" and there was a thread on suffixes that contained a discussion about it, I do not think it would appear in the search list if ura was not in the title of the discussion.

BTW, that is why the forum policy states that your titles are not to be general in nature (Can you help me? Need help translating this. How do you say...?) Those types of titles do not lend themselves to successful searches. If the discussions were searched by content as well as by title, that policy would not be necessary.

(Not that it matters, everyone just ignores the policy anyway)

Ah, I see, thank you Qfreed. At least some discussions have their content searched via the search engine, I was able to find a thread that mentioned ura in one of the answers. - Fredbong, Jun 16, 2011

Answer 2

The suffic -ura added to adjectives form nouns that indicate the quality indicated by the adjective, and in the case of verbs, the thing that the verb does. If a verb has an irregular past participle, the derived noun normally also has it: freír -> frito -> fritura, escribir -> escrito -> escritura, although sometimes, it uses an older verbal form that is no longer in use, like ruptura (Latin: ruptura, from "rumpere") or apertura (Latin apertura, from aperire). Even words like temperatura meant originally the quality or fact of being tempered. Some past participles change their d by t: cuadrado -> cuadratura...

What else do you want to know?

Lazarus, the human reference. Amazing. Since you asked, I would like to know, are all of these nouns feminine? - Fredbong, Jun 16, 2011

Lazarus you are amazing. Do you seriously know Latin? - mistermouse, Aug 11, 2011

Answer 3

Since you asked, I would like to know, are all of these nouns feminine?

Yes, all the ones formed by adding the suffix, but not others like caradura (cara + dura), which do not use the suffix.