• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    A few additional fun points about this:

    • Crab” is Germanic.
    • -ification” itself has its roots in Latin, so even your proposal would be “Latinised”.
    • "carcino- comes from Ancient Greek.
    • True crabs’ scientific name, “Brachyura”, is Neo-Latin derived from Ancient Greek.