Most Spanish words come from Latin, but did you know there are two different groups?
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Most Spanish words come from Latin, but did you know there are two different groups?
There are words that Spanish inherited from spoken Latin, but also words that it borrowed from written Latin during the Middle Ages and after.
Some took both routes, creating doublets. For instance, both ‘hablar’ (to speak) and ‘fabular’ (to make up) come from Latin ‘fābulāre’.
Here’s episode three in my ten-part series on doublets. Next: Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Galician, Dutch, and English.
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