Interest is another Latin verb hiding in plain sight. In Latin, it means “it is important,” literally “to be between,” which might help explain its early application in English for legal and business ...

You’d probably be surprised by how much Latin you actually already know. Hundreds of words—like memo, alibi, agenda, census, veto, alias, via, alumni, affidavit and versus—are all used in everyday ...

On the second floor of an old Bavarian palace in Munich, Germany, there's a library with high ceilings, a distinctly bookish smell and one of the world's most extensive collections of Latin texts.

Professor Roly Sussex explains why we're using many Latin words in everyday English and highlights some of the commonly used words. For daily English language lessons and tips, like our Learn English ...

With students gone for the day, 6th grade teachers Joy Ford and Ryan Rusk sat in a classroom discussing the Latin root temp. After determining that “contemporary” and “temporary” share the root, which ...

The launch of the fundraising think tank Rogare this year reminds us that Latin words underpin many aspects of fundraising. ‘Rogare’ means ‘to ask’, from ‘rogo’ meaning ‘I ask’. Rogo, rogare, rogavi, ...

We have three sources of information: languages that are descended from Latin; the Proto-Indo-European language, from which most languages in Europe and southern Asia descended; and transliterations ...