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  • Around the year 1000, with Romance languages replacing Latin as the spoken tongues of territories formerly within the Roman Empire, the Late Latin word bancus, on loan from a Germanic language, yielded the Italian word banca.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Around the year 1000, with Romance languages replacing Latin as the spoken tongues of territories formerly within the Roman Empire, the Late Latin word bancus, on loan from a Germanic language, yielded the Italian word banca.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • One such word was bancus, for the ancient “workbench” whose name has a common ancestor—in the Germanic line—with the Modern English word bench.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • One such word was bancus, for the ancient “workbench” whose name has a common ancestor—in the Germanic line—with the Modern English word bench.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In turn, Italian had taken it from the Late Latin bancus, meaning “workbench,” a counterlike surface that could be set up by those who manned them—“bankers”—in town squares dotting the Italian Peninsula.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • At the height of the Roman Empire, Latin had no word akin to bancus.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In turn, Italian had taken it from the Late Latin bancus, meaning “workbench,” a counterlike surface that could be set up by those who manned them—“bankers”—in town squares dotting the Italian Peninsula.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • At the height of the Roman Empire, Latin had no word akin to bancus.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • The argenteria was then replaced by the bancus, a raised surface that resembled the worktable used by money changers in Greek-speaking Byzantium.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • The argenteria was then replaced by the bancus, a raised surface that resembled the worktable used by money changers in Greek-speaking Byzantium.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

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