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CLASSIC CULTURE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

LICEO SCIENTIFICO “ A.EINSTEIN ” A.S. 2012/2013 25.11.2012 CL. 3 A FERRARI DAVIDE – GRANDO LEONARDO. CLASSIC CULTURE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. IF LATIN LANGUAGE IS STILL LIVING. LATIN WORDS IN OBAMA’S SPEECH. NOUNS ADJECTIVES VERBS PERCENTUAGES CONCLUSIONS. NOUNS (1/4).

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CLASSIC CULTURE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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  1. LICEO SCIENTIFICO “A.EINSTEIN” A.S. 2012/2013 25.11.2012 CL. 3 A FERRARI DAVIDE – GRANDO LEONARDO CLASSIC CULTURE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IF LATIN LANGUAGE IS STILL LIVING

  2. LATIN WORDS IN OBAMA’S SPEECH • NOUNS • ADJECTIVES • VERBS • PERCENTUAGES • CONCLUSIONS

  3. NOUNS (1/4) • ambition - ambitionem • campaign - campania • candidate - candidatus • car - carrum • career - cararia • class - classis • coalition - coalitus • college - collegium • community - communitas • company - companio • congress - congressus • convention - conventio • conviction - convictionem • cost - constare • crisis - crisis • debt - debitum • decision - decisionem • defense - defensus • deficit - deficit • depression - depressionem • difference - differentia • dignity - dignitas • distraction - distractionem • economy - oeconomia • education - educationem • elect - electus • election - electionem • energy - energia • engineer - ingeniare • essence - essentia

  4. NOUNS (2/4) • experimentation - experimentum • exploration - explorationem • face - facia • factory - factor • faith - fides • family - familia • force - fortis • future - futurus • generation - generationem • government - gubernare • history - historia • honor - honor • horizon - horizontem • hospital - hospitale • idea - idea • immigrant - immigrantem • impact - impactus • industry - industria • magnitude - magnitudo • manufacture - manu+factura • message - missus • million - mille • moment - monumento • monopoly - monopolium • mortgage - mortus • nation - nationem • nomination - nominationem • november - november • office - officum • oil - oleum

  5. NOUNS (3/4) • opponent - opponente • opportunity - opportunittem • optimism - optimus • parent - parentem • part - partem • peace - pavem • people - populus • plan - planum • pollution - pollutionem • prescription - praescriptionem • president - praesidentum • principle - principium • problem - problema • product - productum • program - programma • proud - prode • reason - rationem • regulation - regula • responsibility - responsus • rule - regula • sacrifice - sacrificium • school - schola • science - scientia • scientist - scientia • scripture - scriptura • security - securitas • senate - senatus • senior - senior • serious - seriosus • social - socialis

  6. NOUNS (4/4) • solider - soldus • state - status • story - storia • student - studium • success - successus • surplus - super+plus • system - systema • table - tabula • tax - taxa • test - testum • tragedy - tragedia • tribute - trinutum • triumph - triumphus • tuition - tuitionem • uniform - unifromis • value - valere • victory - victoria • vision - visionem • voice - vocem • vote - votum TOTAL: 110

  7. ADJECTIVES • able - habilis • amputated - amputatus • closed - clausus • created - creatus • critic - criticus • defined - definitus • difficult - difficilis • economic - oeconomicus • efficient - efficientem • inalienable - alienus+habilis • independent - in+dependentem • innocent - innocentem • long - longus • military - miles • national - nationem • necessary - necessarius • one - unus • political - politicus • possible - possibilis • protected - protectus • providential - providentia • republican - respublica • second - secundus • simple - simplus • single - singulus • special - specialis • trivial - trivialis • united - unitus • young - juvenis TOTAL: 29

  8. VERBS • to address - ad+directus • to approve - approbare • to celebrate - celebrare • to compete - com+petere • to compromise - compromittere • to decade - de+cadere • to defend - defendere • to export - exportare • to govern - gubernare • to import - importare • to inspire; - inspirare • to offer - offerre • to pretend - praetendere • to promise - promittere • to push - pulsare • to recognize - recognoscere • to recover - recuperare • to reduce - reducere • to reform - reformare • to refuse - refundere • to reject - re+iecere • to remember - rememorari • to endure - indurare • to eliminate - ex+limine • to understand - inter+statio TOTAL: 24

  9. PERCENTUAGES • NOUNS: 110/1296 8,48% • ADJECTIVES: 29/570 5,08 % • VERBS: 24/684 3,50 % • TOTAL (N., ADJ., V.): 163/2550 6,79 % • TOTAL TEXT: 207/4320 4,79 %

  10. CONCLUSIONS • Although English is a Germanic language, it could be noted that there is a considerable influence (4,79 %) of Latin language. It persists in many of the most important English words. • NOUNS: The greatest influence (8,48 %) is in the nouns. Words that mostly came from Latin are those relating to policy. • ADJECTIVES: Flu over the adjectives is discrete (5,08 %). It is similar to that of total of the text. • VERBS: Verbs are the less derived from Latin (3,50%).

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