Latintos

Latintos stands for "language transformations in texts and open sources." The LATINTOS BLOG highlights different spellings and different meanings of words, phrases and abbreviations as well as their origin. Latintos compares words in different contexts and different languages including scientific and formal languages. Further, name construction is analyzed and applications of systematic names and nomenclature systems are monitored.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Special coolants: Coolanols

The word Coolanol is applied as a trade name for certain industrial silicate esters (tetraalkoxysilanes) that are used as coolants and a...

English: grassoline • German: Grasolin

Since the translation of the English word gasoline into German is Gasolin , the English noun grassoline should be translated into German...

Grassoline instead of gasoline

Gasoline is a fuel based on mineral oil, a limited resource. Grassoline , based on renewable resources, is a second-generation biofuel mad...

Monday, June 1, 2009

The nouns count, number and numeral

The noun count often refers to the action or process of counting, but can also mean the quantity of something being counted or measured, as...

Thursday, May 21, 2009

All things faradayan: Faraday's, Faraday, faradic, faradaic, and farad

The adjective faradayan relates to Michael Faraday (1791-1867), the English bookbinder, chemist and physicist who advanced the fields of e...

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

From local to global: Hubbert's Peak versus Peak Oil

The term Peak Oil is now used to refer to the point ( Oil Peak would be more appropriate, but sounds greasy) at which the maximum of globa...

Saturday, May 9, 2009

With prefix nar and no ending in e: narwhal

The prefix nar in the name narwhal has its origin in the Old Norse word nár , which means corpse . The plural form is narwhals [1]. ...

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