Many English words come from Latin,
the old language of Rome, and also from old Greek. From Latin
we get words like “wine”, “use” and “day”. From Greek we have
words such as “photograph”, “bible” and “ink”. Because these
two languages are dead the words have most often come through
other languages such as French, or the old German languages.
There are also many words from both Greek and Latin together—“television”,
for example. Here “tele” is Greek for “far” and “vision” comes
from Latin and means “seeing”.
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