An Etymological Dictionary of the Latin Language (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Francis Edward Jackson Valpy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0365242012 ISBN 13: 9780365242017

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from An Etymological Dictionary of the Latin Language

One word in regard to the Hebrew. Mr. Horne Tooke thus expresses his objection to the derivation of Latin from that lan guage. It is a most erroneous practice, he says, of the Latin Etymologists to fly to the Hebrew for whatever they cannot find in the Greek -for the Romans were not a mixed colony of Greeks and Jews, but of Greeks and Goths, as the whole of the Latin language most plainly evinces. This seems a reasonable proposition -yet I have not omitted to indulge the fancy of those who are not persuaded by it.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0365242012
• ISBN 13: 9780365242017
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560