Download or read book Latin for the First Year (Classic Reprint) written by Walter Balfour Gunnison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Latin for the First Year As a spoken language Latin never ceased to be used in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal, but grew into different forms or dialects, which we now call Italian, French, Span ish, and Portuguese. These national tongues are together called Romance languages, that is, modern forms of the language of the Romans. It 15 of greater importance to us that our English is also very closely related to this historic language. Our words have come from many different sources, but chiefly from anglo-saxon and Latin. It has been said that English gets most of its strength from anglo-saxon and most of its refinement from Latin. The majority of the words in our dictionaries are of Latin origin. Some of these have not changed in form or meaning for two thousand years, as actor, animal, census, color, error, honor, labor, minus, plus, superior, victor. Others have been coined in recent years, as dirigible, incubator, locomotive. This coining of new words from Latin elements still goes on from year to year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.