Latin and parchment make a good dictionary for running an empire of Indo Europeans. The romans could take a root word from the local dialects and insert it into the formal parchment grammar, allowing the term to e specified for time, place, mood consistent with the official written form.
In that time, Latin was an official organizing language, designed for writs and contracts and law. Much of the early latinizing was not really meant for speech. It wold have been strictly a coding language designed for dispersed rule. Paper changed all that, of course.
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