A perspective on the vocabulary common to Classical and Vulgar Latin
George Bogdan Țâra
This paper stems from two different perspectives—that of the Latinists, and that Romanists—upon concept ‘Vulgar Latin’, perspectives have given rise to a friendly debate between Pierre Flobert Eugeniu Coșeriu. We try highlight number lexical elements are common Classical Vulgar Latin. Our approach leans upon idea (found also with Maria Iliescu) diachronic vision language must take into consideration sum histories words belong language. Observing several items excerpted texts belonging various epochs Latin culture (Archaic, Classical, Late), authors (Cicero, Vergilius, etc.), whose works contain spoken (Plautus, Petronius, high level (epics, discourse, dissertation), strong marks orality (comedies, letters, sermons), we were able see semantic evolution preserved in Romance languages. conclusion endorses notion “common language”, which explains parallel existence like casa, pauimentum, caballus, formosus, uetulus, auricula, gula, bucca, manducare, incendere, draco both Latin, without notable differences.
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