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.

Monday, March 11, 2019

Washoe County's Deadman's Creek named for two ranch partners found dead in their cabin

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Trail crossing Deadman's Creek Deadman's Creek is located in Washoe Lake State Park , Nevada . Half a mile west of the park...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Alexandrite, a rare form of the mineral chrysoberyl named for Tsar Alexander Ⅱ

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Discovered in the 1830s in the Ural Mountains in Russia, the mineral alexandrite was named to honor Czar Alexander Ⅱ [1-3]. Alexandrite ...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Felsina → Bononia → Bologna

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The city of Felsina was founded by Etruscans over 2,500 years ago on the edge of the Po Plain. This is the site of modern Bologna in the ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2018

What is TEIRESIAS?

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TEIRESIAS is a supercomputer of the European Union , used for criminal investigation services . It is the latest iteration of Terry , whic...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

Named for mountain biker Dan Olmstead: The Olmstead Loop Trail

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Olmstead Loop Trail near the Northside Elementary School The Olmstead Loop Trail west of the unincorporated community of Cool near A...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Dahlia merckii - a Hamburger with Mexican roots

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In 1839, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann —the Director of the Botanical Gardens of Hamburg , Germany—named a newly discovered dahlia species...
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Monday, August 13, 2018

How did the genus Dahlia get its name?

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The scientific name Dahlia is the latinized surname of Andreas Dahl (1751-1789), a Swedist botanist and student of taxonomer Carl Linnaeu...
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