During which period did Latinate and Greek-based words enter English?

• A. Renaissance
• B. Victorian Era
• C. Dark Ages
• D. Modern Era

Answer: (A)

The main idea is that a revival of classical learning brought a flood of Latin and Greek vocabulary into English. During the Renaissance, scholars looked back to ancient Latin and Greek texts and began naming new ideas in science, philosophy, and the arts using those roots. English absorbed many new terms formed from Latin and Greek, often with familiar prefixes and suffixes, to describe fields that were expanding at that time. While Latin had entered English earlier through the church and influence persisted in later periods, the deliberate, widespread infusion of Latinate and Greek-based words is most closely associated with the Renaissance.