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Latin is the language of ancient [[Rome]] and its empire, widely used historically as a language of scholarship and administration.

It is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Its' alphabet was derived from the Etruscan and Greek alphabets, and from the Phoenician alphabet.

Latin was originally spoken by the Kittim in the area known as Latium. It became the dominant language through the expansion of commerce and Roman Empire. Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Romanian developed from Vulgar Latin which contributed many words to the English language often having Ancient Greek roots. It is used in theology, biology, science, medicine, and law.

By the late Roman Republic (75 BC), Old Latin had been standardized into Classical Latin. Vulgar Latin was the colloquial form spoken during the same time and attested in inscriptions and the works of comic playwrights like Plautus and Terence. Late Latin is the written language from the 3rd century, and Medieval Latin the language used from the 9th century to the Renaissance which used Renaissance Latin. Later, Early Modern Latin and Modern Latin evolved. Latin was used as the language of international communication, scholarship, and science until well into the 18th century, when it began to be supplanted by vernaculars. Ecclesiastical or Church Latin remains the official language of the Holy See and the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.

Latin is taught in primary, secondary, and postsecondary educational institutions around the world.

Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders, seven noun cases, five declensions, four verb conjugations, four verb principal parts, six tenses, three persons, three moods, two voices, two aspects and two numbers.

== Bible ==


Words in the Bible with a Latin origin.

A number of words are found in the [[Bible]] with Latin origins.


There are coins mentioned in the scriptures by their Latin names that were in use throughout the Roman Empire.

* '''assarion'''  translated '''farthing''' 
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* '''kodrantes '''  translated '''farthing''' 
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* '''denarion '''  translated '''penny, pence, pennyworth'''
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* It appears 16 times<Ref>Matthew 18:28  But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence <1220>: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
: Matthew 20:2  And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny <1220> a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
: Matthew 20:9  And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny <1220>.
: Matthew 20:10  But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny <1220>.
: Matthew 20:13  But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny <1220>?
: Matthew 22:19  Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny <1220>.
: Mark 6:37  He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth <1220> of bread, and give them to eat?
: Mark 12:15  Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny <1220>, that I may see it.
: Mark 14:5  For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence <1220>, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
: Luke 7:41  There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence <1220>, and the other fifty.
: Luke 10:35  And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence <1220>, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
: Luke 20:24  Shew me a penny <1220>. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar’s.
: John 6:7  Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth <1220> of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.
: John 12:5  Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence <1220>, and given to the poor?
: Revelation 6:6  And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny <1220>, and three measures of barley for a penny <1220>; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.</Ref> in the Greek text as penny 9 times, pence 5 times, pennyworth twice. The denarius was also an apothecary weight 


Another Latin word that has to do with money and important to understand is '''"[[tribute]]"'''.

*  '''kensos''' translated '''[[tribute]]'''.
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There were also weights and measures.


A ''libra'' is, of course, a standard of weight.

'''Litra''' translate '''pound'''
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Also, the rank of centurions.

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The word titulus meant the fixing of a title as part of the ''Judicial procedure
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== Footnotes ==

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