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  2. Latinisation of names - Wikipedia

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    Latinisation (or Latinization) [1] of names, also known as onomastic Latinisation, is the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a modern Latin style. [1] It is commonly found with historical proper names , including personal names and toponyms , and in the standard binomial nomenclature of the life sciences.

  3. List of Latinised names - Wikipedia

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    In most cases, the names are "one-off" Latinized forms produced by adding the genitive endings -ii or -i for a man, -ae for a woman, or -orum in plural, to a family name, thereby creating a Latinized form. For example, a name such as Macrochelys temminckii notionally represents a latinization of the family name of Coenraad Jacob Temminck to ...

  4. Category:Latin-language surnames - Wikipedia

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  5. List of Dutch family names - Wikipedia

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    Dutch family names were not required until 1811 when emperor Napoleon annexed the Netherlands; [1] prior to 1811, the use of patronymics was much more common. In Dutch linguistics , many names use certain qualifying words (prepositions) which are positioned between a person's given name and their surname .

  6. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names

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    The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...

  7. Latinisation - Wikipedia

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    Latinisation or Latinization can refer to: . Latinisation of names, the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a Latin style; Latinisation in the Soviet Union, the campaign in the USSR during the 1920s and 1930s to replace traditional writing systems for numerous languages with the Latin alphabet

  8. List of Latin names of countries - Wikipedia

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  9. Dutch name - Wikipedia

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    The Germanic names are the names with the longest history in the Dutch-speaking area; they form the oldest layer of the given names known in Dutch. The Germanic names were characterised by a rich diversity, as there were many possible combinations. A Germanic name is composed of two parts, the latter of which also indicates the gender of the ...