Vulgar Latin Vocabulary (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Like all languages, Latin possessed numerous synonyms that were associated with different speech registers. Some of these words were in the everyday language from the time of Old Latin, while others were borrowed late into Latin from other languages: Germanic, Gaulish, the Paleo-Balkan languages preceding Eastern Romance etc. Certain words customarily used in Classical Latin were not used in Vulgar Latin, such as equus, "horse." Instead, Vulgar Latin typically featured caballus "nag" (but note Romanian iap, Sardinian ebba, Spanish yegua, Catalan euga and Portuguese egua all meaning "mare" and deriving from Classical equa).