700–601 BC
Latin words first recorded in the 7th century BC
2 Latin words whose earliest known written record dates from the 7th century BC, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.
in
699 BC–200 BCIt is inherited from Proto-Italic *en, inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”). The oldest inscriptions write ⟨en⟩; the change of /en/ to /in/ is regular in unstressed position and before…
ne
699 BC–200 BC1. The negative is inherited from Proto-Italic *nē, inherited from Proto-Indo-European *nē (“not”). De Vaan explains the long vowel either as the stressed form of *ne (“not”) (the base of nōn and…