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Catalan words from Latin words first recorded in the 3rd century

2 Catalan words inherited from a Latin word whose earliest known written record dates from the 3rd century, earliest Latin record first.

1. salvar

   260

   from Latin salvo

   It is inherited from Old Catalan salvar, which is inherited from Late Latin salvō (“to save”), a verb formed on Latin salvus (“safe, unharmed, whole”). The same Late Latin verb is Occitan salvar…

2. perdonar

   300–499

   from Latin perdono

   It is inherited from Late Latin perdōnō (“to give up entirely; to forgive”), recorded in the Latin Aesop and continued in all the Romance languages of the West. The GDLC explains it as “to give…

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