8
votes
Do we ever see mixing of B and V word-initially?
There are Latin inscriptions that show confusion between initial B and V. This is not limited to cases where the preceding word ends in a vowel, actually.
One notable example that I remember reading ...
1
vote
On the alleged ambiguity of the Ablative Absolute "Mutatis mutandis"
"mutatis mutandis" when translated into my Croatian language (which is egually synthetic language like Latin) corresponds as - promijenivši ono što treba promijeniti - and when transformed ...
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible
Related Tags
late-latin × 35classical-latin × 11
medieval-latin × 6
spanish × 6
augustinus × 6
vulgar-latin × 5
pronunciation × 4
language-evolution × 4
vocabulary × 3
syntax × 3
meaning × 3
history × 3
vulgata × 3
romance-languages × 3
etymology × 2
verbs × 2
adjective × 2
ecclesiastical-latin × 2
noun × 2
orthography × 2
inscription × 2
adverb × 2
old-latin × 2
idiom × 1
grammar-choice × 1