I admire your commitment to your belief David but I'd imagine your studies were quite some time ago if they took place in a school. I studied ancient and modern languages at University and, perhaps, in slight;y more depth. My paternal grandmother was Greek and that's where I gained my interest in languages.
However, I'd also never claim to be an expert but I do feel that language corruption has become far more widespread due to the internet, and people taking what they read as gospel.
I'll agree to disagree and finish with this:
Trachycarpus, hmmm...
Rough Fruit:
Rough branches:
Now I'm not saying it's obvious but...
Back on topic, I did a bit of research and, aside from finding that many pictures of C.Humilis on the web are widely mislabelled, I did read an interesting article that said the Macrocarpa is an ancient form of the European Fan Palm that is difficult to find in uncrossed form these days.
Another article centred on the fact that Microcarpa and Vulcano, the Dwarf Fan Palm, orginated to the same region of the Meditteranean.
Below are examples of Microcarpa and Macrocarpa and, whilst any large fronded palm will inevitably have larger fruits, I would imagine that during the naming of the plant it would be more obvious that the frond size differed than the fruit size:
