ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “tongue” - In the "knowledge of a foreign language.”In 16c.-16c. in the classical revival the Tongues (or the Three Tongues) were Hebrew, Greek, Latin.🕎Acts 2;1-17 KJV
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 “Greek” - Grecas, "Greeks, inhabitants of Greece," from Latin Graeci "the Hellenes," Graikhos as equivalent to Hellenes is found in Aristotle ("Meteorologica") 🕎Acts 16;1-24 KJV