Book contents
- Early Latin
- Early Latin
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction: What Is ‘Early Latin’?
- Part I The Epigraphic Material
- Part II Drama
- Part III Other Genres and Fragmentary Authors
- Chapter 13 The Language of Early Latin Epic
- Chapter 14 Early Latin Prayers and Aspects of Coordination
- Chapter 15 Some Syntactic Features of Latin Legal Texts
- Chapter 16 Repetition in the Fragmentary Orators
- Chapter 17 How ‘Early Latin’ Is Lucilius?
- Chapter 18 Greek Influences on Cato’s Latin
- Chapter 19 Greek Loanwords in ‘Early Latin’
- Part IV Reception
- Bibliography
- Index Verborum
- Index of Non-Latin Words
- Index Locorum Potiorum
- Subject Index
Chapter 19 - Greek Loanwords in ‘Early Latin’
from Part III - Other Genres and Fragmentary Authors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2023
- Early Latin
- Early Latin
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction: What Is ‘Early Latin’?
- Part I The Epigraphic Material
- Part II Drama
- Part III Other Genres and Fragmentary Authors
- Chapter 13 The Language of Early Latin Epic
- Chapter 14 Early Latin Prayers and Aspects of Coordination
- Chapter 15 Some Syntactic Features of Latin Legal Texts
- Chapter 16 Repetition in the Fragmentary Orators
- Chapter 17 How ‘Early Latin’ Is Lucilius?
- Chapter 18 Greek Influences on Cato’s Latin
- Chapter 19 Greek Loanwords in ‘Early Latin’
- Part IV Reception
- Bibliography
- Index Verborum
- Index of Non-Latin Words
- Index Locorum Potiorum
- Subject Index
Summary
Handbooks of Latin usually draw attention to the presence of Greek loanwords from the very earliest stages of the Latin language. Greek loans feature in texts of all types, in a wide range of different spheres: words for flora and fauna, food and drink, aspects of trade, law and administration. The last major study of the Greek loanwords in Latin (Biville ) concentrated on the ways in which Greek sounds were represented in Latin, but did not have so much to say about the place of Greek loanwords within the vocabulary of Latin as a whole. This chapter gives a survey of Greek loanwords in republican Latin, in both literary and epigraphic documents, with several different research questions in mind. Is it possible to unearth different chronological strata of loanwords? Can learned and vulgar loans be separated in republican Latin, and how well integrated were Greek loans into Latin? Do phonological and semantic aspects of the words reveal anything about the source of the loans? Why do some Greek loanwords make it into the higher registers of Roman poetry (and sometimes prose) and others not, and how do these conventions come about?
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- Early LatinConstructs, Diversity, Reception, pp. 386 - 404Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023