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Appendix:Vulgar Latin in Romance languages
This is a list of words that arose in [[Vulgar Latin]] which replaced the existing [[Latin]] word in at least one [[Romance language]]. 
 
== Grammatical changes ==

* <small>OPTIMOS</small> > [[meliores]] (Portuguese [[melhores]], Spanish [[mejores]], French [[meilleurs]], Italian [[migliori]], "better (plural)")
(contracted; show full)
** Italian [[bocca]]
** Romanian [[bucă]] (= buttock and/or cheek, [[gura]] used for mouth), [[bucatarie]] (=kitchen), [[bucata]]  (=a piece of something to eat, [[parte]] for any other pieces)
* <small>ROSTRVM</small> > [[beccus]] (beak)
** French [[bec]]
** Italian [[becco]]
** Portuguese/Spanish[[bico]]
** Romanian [[bec]] (means bulb in old language and electric lamp in modern language) but [[sa fii pe bec]] or to be on the [[bec]], means to be in a difficult situation
; however the word in Romanian is a neologism borrowed from French
* <small>LIBEROS</small> > [[infantes]] ("children")
** French [[enfants]]
* <small>MILITES</small> > [[servientes]] ("soldiers")
** French [[sergents]]

== Other ==

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== Strange ==
* ???<small>ISSET</small> > [[ambulasset]] (French [[allait]], Romanian [[se dusese]], "he went")???

[[Category:Latin appendices]]