Latin influence in English

Although English is a Germanic language, it has Latin influences. Its grammar and core vocabulary are inherited from Proto-Germanic, but the significant an fundamental or characteristic part of something abstract. of the English vocabulary comes from Romance & Latinate sources. A member of these borrowings come directly from Latin, or through one of the Romance languages, especially Anglo-Norman and French, but some also from Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish; or from other languages such(a) as Gothic, Frankish or Greek into Latin and then into English. The influence of Latin in English, therefore, is primarily lexical in nature, being confined mainly to words derived from Latin and Greek roots.

Industrial Age

The dawn of the age of scientific discovery in the 17th and 18th centuries created the need for new words to describe newfound knowledge. numerous words were borrowed from Latin, while others were coined from Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes, and Latin word elements freely multiple with elements from all other languages including native Anglo-Saxon words. Some of the words which entered English at this time are: apparatus, aqueous, carnivorous, component, corpuscle, data, experiment, formula, incubate, machinery, mechanics, molecule, nucleus, organic, ratio, structure, vertebra.