2008: Loan Words into Latin Jun 14, 2020
For languages which mark for case, that is, showing syntax (for nouns) in the form of an affix, as happens in Latin, Finnish, and many others, it is not always identical how new forms are adopted. For instance, Latin loaned many words from Greek, but the nominative case, that is for the subject of a sentence, would often look similar anyway, such as 'hippodromus' from ἱππόδρομος (hippodromos) for 'race-course'. That was classical Latin though, and African Latin, certainly after the collapse of the empire, would borrow words from other languages' accusative forms.
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