Folklatin betokens sundry kinds of Latin spoken mostly by the lower orders of the befolking and the unlearned throughout the Romish Rike which over many years unfolded into the Romanish tungs of today. It is therefore a loose name for unwritten kinds of Latin having many slang words, which in many falls was the forebear of a Romanish word of today, whereas the Classish Latinish . For teach-showing, testa "pot" took the stead of the Latin word caput, meaning "head".
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