List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents
List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents This list contains Germanic elements of ... English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. Where no Germanic source is available ... based words sound more common, and the Latinate-based ones more lofty. Germanic source Germanic Latinate Latin source (Old Norse angrOld English wræþþo ...
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Talk:List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents
Talk:List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents Why only Old High German? Wouldn ... ahead and add whatever you have. The Latinate side could also be improved by adding ... that being where a lot of the Latinate English words come from. I didn't ... better. After all, what could be more Latinate than Latin? I think the Latin is ...
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English language
... and conjunctions) are shorter and more informal. Latinate words are regarded as more elegant or educated. However, the excessive use of Latinate words is often mistaken for either pretentiousness ... often able to choose between Germanic and Latinate synonyms: "come" or "arrive"; "sight" or "vision ... of thought. See: List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents. An exception to this and a ... will usually be chosen. A majority of Latinate words (or at least a majority ...
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English language (Psychology wiki)
... and conjunctions ) are shorter and more informal. Latinate words are regarded as more elegant or educated. However, the excessive use of Latinate words is often mistaken for either pretentiousness ... often able to choose between Germanic and Latinate synonyms: "come" or "arrive"; "sight" or "vision ... of thought. See: List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents . An exception to this and a ... will usually be chosen. A majority of Latinate words (or at least a majority ...
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User talk:Williamborg-1
... for these regions are given in a Latinate form is that those were the names ... Swede) why he or she used those Latinate forms in English. My assumption is that ... understanding why the convention of using the Latinate names for Swedish provinces was chosen – ... include King’s names. The use of the Latinate form in English writing for Swedish terms ... regions with alternative names suggests using the Latinate Scania for the Danish, Finnish, Swedish ...
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Latin influence in English
... A large number of these borrowings are Latinate, coming directly from Latin, from Latin through ... Consequences for English As we saw with Latinate/Germanic doublets from the Norman period, the use of Latinate words in the sciences gives us pairs ... with a native Germanic noun and a Latinate adjective: animals: ant/formicid, bee/apian, bird ... with English derivatives List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents Inkhorn term
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Talk:Catalonia
... a placename. While "toponym" is a bit Latinate, "adjectival form of placename" is really clumsy, and adjectival is just as Latinate as toponym. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:09, 11 ... Germanic root rather than the (usually longer) Latinate equivalent; e.g. "start" and "end" are ... a Romance language, the use of unidiomatic Latinate words in place of simpler and more ... sorry to have said "parochialism" was a Latinate word. I was wrong. I mean ...
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Esperanto phonology
... representing the phonemic /kʷ, gʷ/ of their Latinate and Germanic sources. On the other hand ... never an issue with words that maintain Latinate orthography, such as absolute "absolutely" or obtuza ... Instead, the debate centers around the non-Latinate orthographic sequence kz, frequently found in Latinate words like ekzemple "for example" and ekzisti ...
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User talk:No Account
... that you've decided to propagate the Latinate form in English by using Gustavus Adolphus ... let it go. The use of the Latinate form in English writing for Swedish terms ... regions with alternative names suggests using the Latinate Scania for the Danish, Finnish, Swedish and ...
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Talk:Plural of virus
... into English frequently have both English and Latinate plurals, as with "index" -> "indices", "indexes"; "penis ... is that in the absence of a Latinate plural, one should use the English formation ... trying to come up with an imitation Latinate plural. However, this suppressed premise is not ...
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