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Law is a dispute-resolution mechanism, not a series of spells: In the real world, no set of Latinate incantations can disappear millions of valid votes.

But the Latinate words that the dance brings to mind are the ones that start with “circum,” or ”around.”

In the Huntington’s gardens, she helped revise labels for plants connected to Indigenous knowledge — on each, indicating their Indigenous, Spanish, English and scientific Latinate names.

Indexes — or indices, to use the Latinate form — are taken for granted today, but it took millennia for them to achieve their current lowly, neglected anonymous status.

The name may sound Japanese, but it is derived from the Latinate suffix attached to certain plant names to denote a superlative, or something remarkable.