Arms and Armour

Portuguese vocabulary

Most of the Portuguese vocabulary comes from Latin because Portuguese is a Romance language. However, other languages that came into contact with it have also left their mark. In the thirteenth century, the lexicon of Portuguese had about 80% words of Latin origin and 20% of pre-Roman Gallaecian and Celtiberian, Germanic, Greek and Arabic origin.

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• ▸Battle of Marathon
• ▸Great South Wall
• ▸History of the British Army

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