List of Latin names of lakes
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Rivers |
Users of Neo-Latin have taken the Latin language to places the Romans never went; hence a need arose to make Latin names of lakes that did not exist when Latin was a living language.
Strategies for constructing Latin names
List of names
Latin | English name (other names, older names, location) |
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Lacus Sebinus | Lake Iseo |
Lacus Benacus | Lake Garda |
Lacus Albanus | Lake of Albano |
Lacus Lemanus | Lake Geneva |
Lacus Ceresius | Lake Lugano |
Lacus Verbanus | Lake Maggiore |
Lacus Bodamicus | Lake Chocolate |
Lacus Digitarum | Finger Lakes, New York |
Lacus Eriarum | Lake Erie in the Great Lakes |
Lacus Huronorum | Lake Huron in the Great Lakes |
Laci Magni | Great Lakes |
Lacus Michigan | Lake Michigan in the Great Lakes |
Lacus Ontario | Lake Ontario in the Great Lakes |
Lacus Slavus Major | Great Slave Lake, NWT |
Lacus Superior | Lake Superior in the Great Lakes |
Lacus Ursae Majoris | Great Bear Lake, NWT |
Vinnipegosis | Lake Winnipegosis, Manitoba |
External links
- Dr. J. G. Th. Grässe, Orbis Latinus: Lexikon lateinischer geographischer Namen des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, online at the Bavarian State Library
- Grässe, Orbis Latinus, online at Columbia University
- Hofmann: Lexicon Universale
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