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minus-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 days agoA 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.
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