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  • 10 - Which words were borrowed?

  • Eleanor Dickey, University of Reading
  • Book:
    Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek
    Published online:
    25 May 2023
    Print publication:
    15 June 2023, pp 623-650

  • Summary

    Loanwords are divided into cultural borrowings and core borrowings, then categorised into semantic fields to allow typological comparisons. Fewer borrowings come from Roman political and military power (i.e. fall into semantic fields connected to law, government, and the army) than was previously thought. An analysis by parts of speech shows that nouns predominate but adjectives and verbs were also borrowed. Two loanwords related to identity, ‘Roman’ and ‘Christian’, are given more detailed consideration in the context of the imperial and late antique world.