Is BAS Latin or Greek?
A link that does exist between Latin and Greek vocabulary, however, is Greek loan-words in Latin. The Greek culture was an important source of inspiration for the Romans and Greek words entered the Latin language through this relationship. Several thousands Latin words are loan-words from Greek.
The answer to the question “Is Greek a Latin based language?” is a resounding no. Greek existed 2000 years before Latin, and by the time the Romans arrived in Greece, the Greeks had an established and refined civilization that didn’t really need any input from the Latin language. The two languages aren’t even related.
Some form of Greek or Proto-Greek has been spoken in the Balkans as far back as 5.000 years. The oldest ancestor of the Latin language, which was an Italic language goes back some 3.000 years. In other words: Greek is older than Latin, so there’s no way that Greek could come from Latin.
Most words in the English language are based on words from ancient Greek and Latin. The root of the word “vocabulary,” for example, is voc, a Latinroot meaning “word” or “name.”. This root also appears in such words as “advocacy,” “convocation,” “evocative,” “vocal,” and “vowel.”.
Root Words vs. The two are related, but they’re not exactly the same thing. A base word is a standalone English word that can also form other words with affixes (prefixes and suffixes). A root word is the Latin or Greek basis of a word that, generally speaking, can’t be used as a standalone word.
