{"id":16,"date":"2009-03-30T15:36:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T20:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/?p=11"},"modified":"2009-03-30T15:36:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T20:36:29","slug":"from-latin-to-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/from-latin-to-english\/","title":{"rendered":"From Latin to English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think people take Latin for granted.\u00a0Most people don&#8217;t realize how many English words have roots that derive from Latin words. Take for example the English word verbatim.\u00a0The English word for verbatim means to quote someone word for word or to copy something word for word.\u00a0In Latin, <strong>verbum<\/strong> means <em>word<\/em>, while <strong>\u0101tim<\/strong> is the adverbial suffix denoting that something is in the form of a noun. See if you can get this corny joke; <strong>verb\u0101tim<\/strong> is a Latin word that the English language has adopted verbatim.<\/p>\n<p>All jokes aside, there are many Latin words that follow this trend of adding \u0101tim with a noun. Take for example <strong>grad\u0101tim<\/strong>. To take things <strong>grad\u0101tim<\/strong> means to take things step by step.\u00a0The word <strong>l\u012bter\u0101tim<\/strong> means letter by letter. You might see this phrase in a law school textbook; <strong>verb\u0101tim et l\u012bter\u0101tim<\/strong>. This literally means word for word and letter by letter. It&#8217;s a phrase used when lawyers argue their case <strong>ad pedem litterae<\/strong>, or <em>exactly as it is written<\/em>. <strong>Ad pedem litterae<\/strong> literally means to the foot of the letter.\u00a0It&#8217;s close to the English idiom meaning <em>to the letter,<\/em> which means,<em> to the last detail<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think people take Latin for granted.\u00a0Most people don&#8217;t realize how many English words have roots that derive from Latin words. Take for example the English word verbatim.\u00a0The English word for verbatim means to quote someone word for word or to copy something word for word.\u00a0In Latin, verbum means word, while \u0101tim is the adverbial&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/from-latin-to-english\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3691],"tags":[3716],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-latin-language","tag-english-loan-words-from-latin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}