Abstract
The article deals with the history and etymology of words with a learned meaning that were borrowed into the Romance languages from written Latin. While mastering words of this kind, speakers of the Romance languages in many cases exposed them to phonetic transformations, including irregular ones, since difficult words tend to be distorted in speech. In their expansion beyond a limited circle of intellectuals, such words acquired further new meanings related to their role in medieval culture. We focus on the descendants of the Lati nword grammatica , itself originally borrowed from Greek, which little by little obtained a variety of meanings: ‘Latin’, ‘language, idiom’, ‘magic, enchantment’.
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