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, March 30, 2018

When to drop the “ad” and “ab” prefixes

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The prefixes ad and ab are generally used with the meaning toward and away from , respectively. But not within every context is the mean...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

What is the wood-wide web?

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The expression wood-wide web is a play on the term world-wide web . Both terms refer to communication networks. But in the case of the woo...
Saturday, December 9, 2017

What is a pre-Darwinian Darwinist?

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The term “A pre-Darwinian Darwinist ” refers to a researcher or scientist who foretook evolutionary ideas in his (or her) writings before C...
Sunday, October 8, 2017

Named for Georg Wilhelm Steller

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Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709-1746) was an 18th-century German naturalist and explorer [1]. As a ship's doctor, he was accompanying Dani...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Fascinated by the word Kassel - and the city as well

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Orangery near downtown Kassel Kassel is a German city in northern Hesse. The geographic name “Kassel” derives from the Latin word “ ca...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Kassel's documenta 14 slogan “Being safe is scary”

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The documenta 14 art exhibition, which took place from June 10 through September 17 in 2017 in the German city of  Kassel in northeas...
Saturday, July 8, 2017

What is a shoe dog?

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A shoe dog is a footwear expert . The term usually refers to a person dedicated to designing and fabricating shoes—and selling them. Sho...
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