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For questions related to the process of vulgar/medieval Latin becoming modern Romance languages
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How did sedeo, sedere supplant some forms of sum, esse in Vulgar Latin?
I had learned that the Romance languages' copulas come from Latin's sum verb obviously, but not all of its forms transferred over. Specifically the verb's present subjunctive forms seem to have been s …
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How did Latin's inchoative verb endings (-sco) get very productive in the Romance languages?
How did this particular suffix scheme get so common in the daughter Romance languages?
Take Latin: finire, finio
Then look at Spanish: fenecer, fenezco
Italian: finire, finisco
French: finir, je finis …
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When do the demonstratives ille, illa, illud become reduced definite articles?
More specifically, what are the first attestations of the nascent reduced forms of the definite articles in Latin (or Proto-Romance) e.g. Latin illam > la?
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Has the word 'focus' ever meant 'fire' in Latin literature?
I ask this because in virtually all the Romance languages, the respective descendants simply mean fire, yet when I come across the term in classical literature specifically, it usually meant 'hearth'. …
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Does "laviniaque" from Vergil's Aeneid point to Romance palatalization?
The second i in "laviniaque" from the 2nd line of Aeneid is supposed to be consonantal to fit the hexameter; therefore the pronunciation should be something like: /la'wi.nja.qʷe/.
My question is focus …