- Latin names of mountains
Users of
Neo-Latin have taken the Latin language to places the Romans never went; hence a need arose to make Latin names of mountains that did not exist when Latin was a living language.trategies for constructing Latin names
:See companion article
List of names
Latin English name, [other name(s)] , [older name(s)] , [state/province/region] , [nation or state] , [continent] Aegaleus¹ Mount Aegaleus ,Piraeus ,Greece Aenos Mount Ainos ,Kefallinia /Cephallonia,Greece Aetna¹ Mount Etna ,Sicily Albus, Mons Mont Blanc ,France andItaly Alpis (ranges) Alps ,France toAustria Alpis Australia? Australian Alps ,New South Wales Andes (ranges) Andes ,Chile toColombia Aroania¹ Mount Aroania /Chelmos ,Greece Atlas¹ (ranges) Atlas Mountains , NWAfrica Caucasus Caucasus mountains, Georgia toAzerbaijan Cyllene¹ Mount Cyllene, Kylléne Dalmatia (Alpis) Dalmatian Mountains ,Damlatia , SCroatia ,West Balkans Dirphys¹ Mount Dirphys ,Greece Elbrus Mount Elbrus ,Caucasus Erymanthus¹ Mount Erymanthus (Olonos) Eryx Monte San Giuliano ,Sicily Helicon¹ Mount Helicon ,Greece Herminius Mons Serra da Estrela ,Portugal Hymettus¹ Mount Hymettus ,Greece Libani Mons Mount Lebanon ,Lebanon Minthe¹ Mount Minthe , Ilia,Greece Oenoe¹ Mount Oenoe ,Greece Olympicus (montes) Olympic Mountains , WashingtonOlympus Mons¹ (Asia Minor) Mount Olympus, W Turkey Olympus Mons¹ (Cyprus) Mount Olympus, Cyprus Olympus Mons¹ Mount Olympus ,Greece Olympus Mons¹ (N. Zelandia) Mount Olympus, New Zealand Olympus Mons¹ (Tenn.) Mount Olympus, Tennessee Olympus Mons¹ (UT) Mount Olympus, Utah Olympus Mons¹ (Vasingtonia, Olympicus) Mount Olympus , WashingtonOssa¹ Mount Ossa, Thessaly ,Greece Ossa (Tasmania) Mount Ossa , Tasmania, AustraliaParnassus¹ Mount Parnassus ,Greece Pentele¹ Pentele Pholoe¹ Mount Pholoe ,Greece Pindus¹ Pindus, Pindos Parnetha¹ Mount Parnetha ,Parnitha ,Greece Regius (Mons) Mount Royal ,Quebec Rhodope¹ Rhodope Scollis¹ Mount Scollis ,Greece Taurus¹ (ranges) Taurus Mountains , STurkey Taygetus¹ Mount Taygetus ,Taygetos Transylvania Transylvania , NRomania Vergina Mount Vergina ,Greece Vesuvius Mount Vesuvius ,Italy # Latinized form of a Greek-derived mountain name
External links
* [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html Graesse, Orbis Latinus]
* [http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/hofmann.html Hofmann: Lexicon Universale]
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