Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The parameters of this study
- 3 Lexicon
- 4 How were Latin words integrated into Greek? Spelling and inflection
- 5 How were Latin loanwords accented in Greek?
- 6 Which Latin suffixes were borrowed into Greek?
- 7 Why were some Latin words not integrated?
- 8 When were loanwords used?
- 9 Where were loanwords used?
- 10 Which words were borrowed?
- 11 Overall conclusions and remaining questions
- 12 Appendices
- Abbreviations
- References
- Index locorum
- Index of Latin words
9 - Where were loanwords used?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The parameters of this study
- 3 Lexicon
- 4 How were Latin words integrated into Greek? Spelling and inflection
- 5 How were Latin loanwords accented in Greek?
- 6 Which Latin suffixes were borrowed into Greek?
- 7 Why were some Latin words not integrated?
- 8 When were loanwords used?
- 9 Where were loanwords used?
- 10 Which words were borrowed?
- 11 Overall conclusions and remaining questions
- 12 Appendices
- Abbreviations
- References
- Index locorum
- Index of Latin words
Summary
The distribution of loanwords between papyri, inscriptions, and literature is investigated: more appear in literature than in other sources, but papyri have the highest density of Latinisms. Local and regional loanwords existed, and these can be seen not only in papyri and inscriptions, but also in literature, which preserves traces of loanwords specific to the city of Rome. Special attention is paid to the New Testament (especially Acts of the Apostles), Atticising writers (especially Athenaeus and Lucian), the Edict of Diocletian, Roman historians, medical writers (especially Galen), Hesychius, the antiquarian John Lydus, and texts on Roman law (especially Theophilus Antecessor, the Scholia Sinaitica, and Modestinus).
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- Latin Loanwords in Ancient GreekA Lexicon and Analysis, pp. 595 - 622Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023