Lexical turnover Over the centuries, spoken Latin lost certain words in favour of coinages; in favour of borrowings from neighbouring languages such as Gaulish, Germanic, or Greek; or in favour of other Latin words that had undergone semantic shift. The “lost” words often continued to enjoy some currency in literary Latin, however.
lexical turnover over the centuries spoken latin lost certain words in favour of coinages; in favour of borrowings from neighbouring languages such as gaulish germanic or greek; or in favour of other latin words that had undergone semantic shift the “lost” words often continued to enjoy some currency in literary latin however