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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3225644" data-attributes="member: 24811">I'm not sure you understand the situation. "Back then", Latin was still a language that was in use for a number of purposes. His name was latinized as a consequence of being used in Latin, not "just for the sake of nomenclature". What I'm talking about include things like [<a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=bcthAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA336&dq=rueppellius#v=onepage&q=rueppellius&f=false" target="_blank">this</a>] (of course, the -ius ending will appear in cases where Rüppell is the subject of a sentence), which is a reference to what he reported [<a href="https://books.google.be/books?id=HMzJNfHRGO8C&pg=PA280#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">here</a>], and is absolutely not linked to anything even remotely nomenclatorial. Rueppellius is really how he was called in Latin.I'm not clear what you mean. Eduard Rüppell's name is clearly neither proper Greek nor proper Latin: to stick to these languages would mean not to use it at all, whatever the spelling.</blockquote>