Latin vocabulary
Ancient Roman lexicon
Latin vocabulary refers to words and phrases borrowed from or rooted in Latin, the language of ancient Rome.
English draws heavily on Latin vocabulary, especially in academic, legal, medical, and scientific contexts: per se, et cetera, habeas corpus, in vitro.
Learning Latin vocabulary often means studying these borrowings or, for Latin students, building a working word list for reading classical texts.
- amorForeign word for affection
- in vino veritasTruth emerges when drinking
- bellumWar, in Latin
- nominativeCase marking sentence subjects
- agendaFormal discussion list
accusative · species · genitive · dative · ablative · vocative · subjunctive · indicative · genus · curriculum vitae · status quo · de facto · bona fide · veto · ad hominem · per se · vice versa · et cetera
- LatinCicero, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Livy
- Latin studiesAeneid, Metamorphoses, Seneca, Livy, Lucretius
- Latin dictionariesdefinitions, headwords, lemmas, translations, word list
- Romance languagesSpanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian
- Latin grammarablative, accusative, dative, genitive, nominative
- Medieval LatinAquinas, Augustine, Jerome, hagiography, breviaries
Latin vocabularyslang
Informal in-group vocabulary
colloquialisms · street language · everyday speech · common parlance · plain English
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