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List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English
reconstructed form ==Noun/adjective doublets==
Noun/adjective doublets
In particular, the use of Latinate words in the sciences gives us pairs with a native Germanic noun and a Latinate (or Ancient Greek-derived) adjective: • animals: ant/formic, ape/simian, bear/ursine, bee/apian, bird/avian, butterfly/papilionaceous, carp/cyprine, cat/feline, chicken/gallinaceous, cod/gadoid, cow/bovine, crow/corvine, deer/cervine, dog/canine, duck/anatine, fish/piscine, fox/vulpine, goat/caprine, goose/anserine, hare/leporine, horse/equine, mew/larine, mouse (or rat)/murine, pig/porcine, rabbit/cunicular, reindeer/rangiferine, sheep/ovine, snake/anguine, spider/arachnid, starling/sturnine, swan/cygnine or cygnean, wasp/vespine, whale/cetacean, wolf/lupine, worm/vermian, man/human or hominid (gender specific: man/masculine, woman/feminine). • physiology: arm/brachial, blood/sanguine, bone/osteotic, brain/cerebral, chest/pectoral, ear/aural, eye/ocular or visual, finger/digital, foot/pedal, hair/pilar, hand/manual, head/capital, heart/cardial, kidney/renal, leg/crural, lips/labial, liver/hepatic, lung/pulmonary, mind/mental, mouth/oral, nail/ungual, neck/cervical, nipple/papillary, sole of the foot/plantar, tongue/lingual, tooth/dental. • astronomy: earth/terrestrial, moon/lunar, star/stellar, sun/solar. • sociology: brother/fraternal, father/paternal, mother/maternal, sister/sororal, son or daughter/filial, wife/uxorial. • other: bell/tintinnabulary, boat/naval, book/literary, door/portal, earl/comital, edge/marginal, fighter/military, fire/igneous, house/domestic, ice/glacial, king/regal, light/optical, marsh/paludal, sight/visual, sword/gladiate, town/urban, tree/arboreal, water/aquatic, wind/vental. ==See also==
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