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Latin words first recorded in the 18th century

1 Latin word whose earliest known written record dates from the 18th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

1. uranium

   1789

   It is from New Latin Ūranus + -ium: the German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth named it in 1789 in Modern Latin after the planet Uranus, which had been found shortly before. The planet's name comes…

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