Languages & Linguistics - Posts tagged Latin

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Q&A How did "put under" shift to signify "cause to take the place of", then "enough"?

1 answer · last activity 5 days ago by Jirka Hanika‭

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Q&A How did 'quibus?' shift to mean 'evasion of a point at issue'?

1 answer · last activity 12 days ago by Jirka Hanika‭

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Q&A How does "drive out" shift to signify "weigh out"?

0 answers · last activity 16 days ago by PSTH‭

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Q&A What's the Semantic Field of puto?

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Q&A How did "represent" semantically shift to signify "standing in the place of another"?

0 answers · last activity 17 days ago by PSTH‭

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Q&A How did 'folding back' semantically shift to mean 'reply'?

0 answers · last activity 17 days ago by PSTH‭

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Q&A How's “drag” related to “handle, deal with, discuss”?

0 answers · last activity 23 days ago by PSTH‭

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Q&A How do Latin etymons that end in English in *-tion* nearly always name a process?

0 answers · last activity 30 days ago by PSTH‭

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Q&A Why was Spanish the only Romance language to lose the initial "F" in Latin words?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A How can a prepositional phrase shift to become a verb?

2 answers · last activity 4 months ago by msh210‭

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