ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “Latin” - Roman, the region of Italy around Rome, Classical Latin flourished from about 75 B.C.E. to about 200 C.E., the Latin of Lucretius, Catullus, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Livy, Seneca. 🕎Luke 23;35-38 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “country” - mid-13c., "(one's) native land;" c. 1300, "any geographic area," "region, district,” "(land) spread before one," as "area surrounding a walled city or town