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2 unusual facts about Latinisation


Latinisation

Liturgical Latinisation, the adoption of practices from Western Christianity by the Eastern Churches

Latinisation of names, a literary practice of writing a name in a Latin style when writing in Latin


Lizard

The name Sauria was coined by James Macartney (1802); it was the Latinisation of the French name Sauriens, coined by Alexandre Brongniart (1800) for an order of reptiles in the classification proposed by the author, containing lizards and crocodilians, later discovered not to be each other's closest relatives.


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