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Here is a list of principalities and regions written in the Latin language and English and other names on the right. This is NOT a duplication of Roman provincial names.
This list includes the Roman names of countries, ... Latin Name English Name Achaea [1] Greece: Africa [2] Tunisia: Aegyptus [3] Egypt: Aethiopia: Sub-Saharan Africa ...
The name Heliconia indica invokes two locations: Heliconia refers to Mount Helicon, [1] and indica means 'from India'. [2] A list of place names, used in Latin descriptions and, after the development of binomial nomenclature, as specific names in the natural sciences.
This list includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the actual names modern regions and settlements bore during the classical era.
List of Latin names of cities; List of Latin place names in Continental Europe, Ireland and Scandinavia; List of Latin names of countries; E. Latin exonyms; I.
Latin being an inflected language, names in a Latin context may have different word-endings to those shown here, which are given in the nominative case. For instance Roma (Rome) may appear as Romae meaning "at Rome" (), "of Rome" or "to/for Rome" (), as Romam meaning "Rome" as a direct object (), or indeed as RomÄ with a long a, probably not indicated in the orthography, meaning "by, with or ...
This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...
Early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and spellings of the Latin names. The modern canonical name is listed first. In general, only the earliest source is shown for each name, although many of the names are recorded in more than one of the sources.