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

* <small>OPTIMOS</small> > [[meliores]] (Portuguese [[melhores]], Spanish [[mejores]], French [[meilleurs]], Italian [[migliori]], "better (plural)")
* <small>SANIORE</small> > [[plus  ]] [[sano]] (French [[plus  ]] [[sain]], Italian [[più  ]] [[sano]], Spanish [[mas ás]] [[sano]], Romanian [[mai  ]] [[sanatos]], "healthier")

== Germanic loan words ==

* <small>TVRBAS</small> > [[fulcos]] (French [[foule]], Italian [[folla]], "mob")
* <small>CEMENTARIIS</small> > [[mationibus]] (French [[maçons]], "stonemasons")
* <small>NON PERPERCIT</small> > [[non sparniavit]] (French [[épargner]], "to spare")
* <small>GALEA</small> > [[helme]] (French [[heaume]], Italian [[elmo]], "helmet")

== Words whose meaning has changed depending on language ==

* [[prehendere]] (to apprehend, to grab an idea), [[com prehendere]] (to understand)
** French [[prendre]] (to take), comprendre (to understand), [[apprendre]] (to learn)
** Romanian [[prinde]] (to catch an object), [[se prinde]] (to catch an idea), [[aprinde]] (to turn on, to kindle - the fire, an electric device or to make someone get angry)
* [[levare]] (to rise and/or to diminish)
** French [[élever]] (to take something from down up), [[soulever]] (to elevate, to rise), [[enlever]] (to take away)
** Romanian [[lua]] (to take for oneself, to take away)
* [[eradicare]] (to extract with the root of a plant/tree)
** Romanian [[ridicare]] (to elevate, to rise)
* [[futuere]] (?)
** French [[foutre|foutre - quelque part]] (to throw away), [[foutre|foutre - le bordel]] (to make disorder?), [[se foutre]] (not to care)
** Romanian [[fute]] (to make sex - "to someone" and not "with someone", very vulgar), [[se fute]] (not to care)
* <small>IN ORE</small> > [[in bucca]] (mouth)
** Portuguese/Spanish [[boca]]
** French [[bouche]]
** 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 ==
(contracted; show full)
* <small></small> > [[magis]] (Romanian [[mai]], one of the most used words in Romanian to say quite anything: [[mai bine]] = better ([[bine]] = good), [[mai mult]] = more, [[mai vreau]] = I want more, [[mai repede]] = faster, [[încă mai]] = still and again (încă = encore in French, no translation into English), [[mai incolo]] = further, and so on but [[mai]] alone has absolutely no meaning)


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