Vulgar Latin

4th cent ablative singular accusative adjective amatus Appendix Probi attested became Catalan century A.D. changes Christian Classical Latin common confusion conjugation conjunction consonant dative declension developments distinctions Empire evolution example feminine fricative functions future Gaul genders genitive grammar Greek Gregory of Tours habere happened Hispania infinitive inflectional system inscriptions intervocalic Italian Italy large number Late Latin later Latin language Latin texts less letter linguistic literary loved masculine meaning Merovingian morphology Mulomedicina Chironis neuter nominal inflections normal noun phrase Occitan Old French originally long Oscan palatal participle particularly passive periphrasis phonetic phonological pluperfect plural Portuguese prepositional phrases pronounced pronunciation quod refer replaced Romance area Romance languages Romance words Rumanian Saint Saint Jerome Sardinia semantic semivowel sentence sixth century Spanish speech spelling spoken Latin subjunctive subordinate clauses suffix survived syllable synthetic tense tion tive traditional unstressed usage usually verb Vulgar Latin Vulgar texts weakening word-final writing written