Academic Words - Gakushikigo

Japanese: 学識語 - がくしきご
Academic Words - Gakushikigo

… Finally, the majority of French vocabulary is derived from Latin. However, a distinction can be made between the so-called “popular words” (mot populaire), which have been in continuous use from the Vulgar Latin period to the present day and still form the basis of the basic vocabulary, and the many “scholarly words” (mot savant), including abstract words, which have been consciously borrowed from written medieval Latin since the Old French period, and from classical Latin, especially since the Renaissance. “Popular words” include words of Gallic and Germanic origin, while “scholarly words” include words of Greek and Arabic origin, but French vocabulary also includes loanwords from dialects of Oiuil, Occitan, Italian (especially from the 15th to 18th centuries), English (especially since the 17th century), and other languages. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "academic words" are listed below.

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Japanese:

… 最後にフランス語の語彙に関していえば,ラテン語に由来するものが大多数を占める。ただし俗ラテン語期から今日に至るまでとだえることなく使われ続け,現在も基本語彙の根幹をなす,いわゆる〈民衆語mot populaire〉と,古フランス語期以来,書き言葉としての中世ラテン語から,あるいは特にルネサンス以降は古典ラテン語から意識的に借用された,抽象語をはじめとする多量の〈学識語mot savant〉とを区別することができる。〈民衆語〉にはガリア語やゲルマン語起源の語が含まれ,また〈学識語〉にはギリシア語やアラビア語起源の語も含まれるが,フランス語の語彙にはこのほか,オイル語方言やオック語,イタリア語(特に15~18世紀),英語(特に17世紀以降)その他の言語からの借用語が見いだせる。…

※「学識語」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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