This is a list of Latin words with
derivatives in
English language
English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples th ...
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Ancient orthography did not distinguish between ''i'' and ''j'' or between ''u'' and ''v''.
Many modern works distinguish ''u'' from ''v'' but not ''i'' from ''j''. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also
Latin phonology and orthography
Latin phonology is the system of sounds used in various kinds of Latin. This article largely deals with what features can be deduced for Classical Latin as it was spoken by the educated from the late Roman Republic to the early Empire. Evidence co ...
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Nouns and adjectives
The citation form for nouns (the form normally shown in Latin dictionaries) is the Latin
nominative
In grammar, the nominative case ( abbreviated ), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of E ...
singular, but that typically does not exhibit the root form from which English nouns are generally derived.
Verbs
Prepositions and other words used to form compound words
See also
References
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History of the English language
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
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