I mean, that depends… here in Europe you’d ask for the vegetarian option if you wanted the non-standard dish. In a lot of places in India, you’d ask for the non-veg option if you wanted the non-standard one. The character “中” in the Chinese word for “China” (中国) means “middle” when used as a noun or “central” when used as an adjective. However, the prime meridian runs through Greenwich in England.
The German word for “meat” is “Fleisch.” The German word for “flesh” is also “Fleisch.” Not one of those cases where the one is feminine and the other is masculine either; simply the very same word. This does not mean in turn that Germans are okay with cannibalism. Add 1066 to the mix and all of a sudden English differentiates between meat on the table and livestock and the “cow” is suddenly “beef” when on a plate because of the French “boeuf.”
Then you got some Americans come up with a study where they want to see to what extent the grammatical gender influences a speaker’s perception of an object. I believe the word was “bridge” and they compared the German “die Brücke” (fem.) to the Spanish “el puente” (masc.) and noticed that German speakers used more “feminine” adjectives and Spanish speakers used more “masculine” adjectives when describing the characteristics of bridges.
Make of that what you will, but it’s interesting that people who speak a language that dropped their three genders a long time ago when Old English became Middle English come to these kinds of conclusions. I mean how about “the” water which happens to be “das Wasser” (neut.) in German, “el agua” (masc.) in Spanish, and “a água” (fem.) in Portuguese. Portuguese and Spanish share an 89% lexical similarity. Maybe they can run the study again and come up with an explanation as to why Spanish water is from Mars and Portuguese water is from Venus.
Long story short, both methods make use of our internal GPS system in the hippocampus… the rest is “just” details. It’s entirely up to you of course if you feel the need to eat “meat” or even “beef” or if “Fleisch” is good enough.
In which language? I mean the word “hippocampus” actually comes from Ancient Greek, but there it was still a horse-like sea monster and not part of the brain yet and just saying “because Frances Yates said so” isn’t a strong argument either. 
On the other hand, not all students speak Latin, Ancient Greek, or Biblical Hebrew to make sense of all that has been written.
I’ve seen some interesting arguments here before…
…and that wasn’t even the most complicated of Latin you could run into… either way, your postgrad is going to have her work cut out for her. Best of luck!