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[–] 17 points 1 year 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.
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