>On 9 Jul 1998 "Susan Carroll-Clark" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I know the Vatican, from time to time, adds new words to its Latin
lexicon.
>Do they happen to have come up yet with a term for "Internet"? (And if
not,
>does anyone want to try to invent one)?
>
I don't find 'internet' among the entries in the Vatican _Lexicon
Recentis Latinitatis_. No surprise, as v.I (A-L) was published in 1992.
I don't have access to _Latinitas_ to see if something more recent has
been published there. However, the following website (of Jaskinia Draco
of U Warsaw) has a latin computer vocabulary that you may find useful,
including two choices for 'internet':
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~conradus/docs/voccomp.html
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