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Contraposition Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
term : why Latinic?
In English, why do scholars and experts prefer to use latin-based words rather than those of Germanic origin when coining a term?
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Because it is through Latin that most learned words come historically. The Renaissance was based on the classical learning of ancient Greece as translated by Roman writers.
- Because it is through Latin that most learned words come historically.
- The Renaissance was based on the classical learning of ancient Greece as translated by Roman writers.
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Because it is through Latin that most learned words come historically. The Renaissance was based on the classical learning of ancient Greece as translated by Roman writers.
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contraposition In English, why do scholars and experts prefer to use latin-based words rather than those of Germanic origin when coining a term?Note also that Greek-based words are often preferred in the world of medicine.
The use of Latin roots for scholarly work dates back to the days when almost every student in Europe used Latin as a sort of inte
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Mister Micawber, it begins much further back than the Renaissance... in 1055, William of Orange conquered England and set up a 600-year reign of French monarchy in the country. As French became the language of Government, Commerce and Education, more inflected forms of words came into English. (see also "have" (to possess) having only the one form in English yet the common root "-tain" (from Fr
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