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Latin in French and the Modern World
What do you know about Latin?
“A sleeping dragon is never to be tickled.”
Latin Root:Severus = “Severe”
Latin Roots:Draco = “Dragon/Serpent”Mal = “bad/evil”
Fleur = “flower” (Latin-flors)Delacour = “of the court”
Accio – “I summon”
Crucio – “I torture”
Felix Felicis – “Lucky of lucky”
Imperio – “I command”
Inferi – “those below, inhabitants of the underworld”
Levicorpus – “Light body”
Lumos – from lumen “light”
Reparo – “I recover”
Veritaserum – from veritas “truth,” a truth serum
Aeneas
Romulus and Remus
Monarchy
Tyranny
Republic
Caesar in Gaul
Caesar vs. Vercingetorix
Alesia
Blue: Official language.Green: Co-official or regionally official language.Red: "Unofficial whole" language usage.Yellow: Significant unofficial regional language.
Vulgar Latin
• Colloquial Latin
• Not the written language
• Vulgar = “common ordinary”
• Spoken by soldiers in occupying areas.
• Began in about 200 B.C.
Gallo-Romance
• Spoken mainly in France
• Derived from Vulgar Latin
• Aspects of Vulgar Latin that aren’t carried on into French.
Old French
• Takes dative, accusative, and ablative case in Latin and makes it the oblique case, which isn’t found in modern French.
• Called langue d’oil – meaning they use oui for yes, whereas the other Romance languages use forms of sic (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese “si”)
• Has influences of Scandinavian and Celtic that make it modern French.
Modern French
• Created by infusion of Gallo-Romance with Scandinavian and Celtic languages.
• First text written in French in 810, Oathes of Strausburg.
• 1539 made official language of King Francis I
• Kind of like vulgar Latin. Old French made literary language, like high Latin.
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