French words inherited from Latin, by century
When the Latin words that French inherited were first recorded in Latin. Of the 627 French entries handed down from an attested Latin word (not borrowed from Latin), 495 have a dated Latin entry; here they are by the century of the Latin word's first written record.
Explore by century
300–201 BC
French words from Latin words first recorded in the 3rd century BC
288 words, 58% of the dated ones
Every century
- 7th century BC 700–601 BC 1
- 5th century BC 500–401 BC 54
- 3rd century BC 300–201 BC 288
- 2nd century BC 200–101 BC 26
- 1st century BC 100–1 BC 55
- 1st century AD 1–100 10
- 2nd century 100s 10
- 3rd century 200s 12
- 4th century 300s 14
- 5th century 400s 5
- 6th century 500s 7
- 7th century 600s 3
- 8th century 700s 6
- 9th century 800s 1
- 11th century 1000s 2
- 12th century 1100s 1
A word counts when its etymology names the Latin word it was inherited from; words borrowed from Latin later, and words from a Latin form that is only reconstructed, are left out. The century is the Latin entry's date of first attestation, or that of the first author it names. It says when the Latin word was first written down, not when it entered speech. More in French words by century and Latin words by century.