Some words shared by most of the Romance languages are not of Latin origin but were probably borrowed from other languages before Latin unity was disrupted, especially words of Celtic origin, such as Latin carrum 'cart,' Romanian car, Italian carro, Logudorian karru, Rhaetian k'ar, French char, Occitan and Catalan car, Spanish and Portuguese carro.
There is nothing wrong with Latinisms, even long ones, in themselves: this article is stuffed with words of Latin origin, and few of them would be better replaced by Anglo-Saxon equivalents.
The earliest didactic writings, Irish in language but in content mostly of Latin origin, comprised monastic rules, homilies, and hagiography.
The numbers are partly reflected in the prominence enjoyed by practitioners of Latin origin, like Rafael Vinoly, Enrique Norten and Bernardo Fort-Brescia.
Of seventeen writers quizzed by the Guardian, only two chose words of Latin origin: Tessa Hadley, who offered "cochineal," and Will Self, who suggested "pipe down!," an only semi-Latinate phrase favored by his father.
You can't have my surname and not be grateful for the blunt, good words that come from Old English; but I confess a personal predilection for words of Latin origin, with the arch distance they offer from the realm of ordinary speech, and their secret etymological histories, which seem to me to bestow a peculiar romance upon the craft of writing.
The dialect of Berry is distinguished by numerous words of late Latin origin and continues to be spoken in Cher around Sancergues, Sancerre, and Sancoins and in Indre département near La Châtre.
Determined to teach himself, he kept reading -- Greek history, British history, Congolese history -- and as we hiked through the Pygmy forest or drove to Vita's headquarters, he talked of Che Guevara's revolutionary venture in Congo, of the linguistic influences of Britain's wars against France, of the Latin origins of the word "militia".
Alice Waters, conscious of the Latin origins of sweet potatoes, sometimes adds some lime juice and a few cilantro leaves, and that suits me just fine as well.
Walloon literature, the body of written works produced by Belgians in the local dialects of French and Latin origin known as Walloon, which is spoken in the modern Belgian provinces of Hainaut, Liège, Namur, Luxembourg, and Walloon Brabant.
For the physiotherapy domain, there are many erudite formations, of Greek or Latin origin, due to the fact that such terminology has many terms from medicine, such as 'arthr(o -' ('arthr(o -') that may form, for instance, the terms 'arthrlgia' ('arthro -'is') and 'artrite' ('arthritis').
