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Im not so sure? The word 'plastic' existed before plastic did. Does Latin not have a word for that property? And so on.


I think you might still end up with something like the Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis [1] maintained by the Vatican. And unless you "make up" neologisms you'll end up with stuff like "timer - instrumentum tempori praestituendo" which would be extremely tedious to use in a conversation. Purists might argue that it would be awesome if we could make grammar "stable" though. It's an interesting thought.

[1] http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/institutions_connected/lat...


Again, the word 'timer' could be some variant of 'temporia', a shortcut for the device that isn't descriptive, just like in English?




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