VOCABULARY OF LATIN ORIGIN IN BYELORUSSIAN AND ROMANIC LANGUAGES
The introductory part of the article deals with reasons for the spread of Latin in Belarus: the process of intensive polonisation of social and cultural life of Byelorussian people, the usage of Latin in education of that time, etc. The fact of wide usage of Latin in Belarus is stressed, that has resulted in considerable percent of Latinisms in the vocabulary of the Old Byelorussian language, - Latinisms were second in it after Polonisms. The main part of the article considers a comparative analysis of separate traditional lexical units of the Byelorussian language, which derive from Latin etymons and corresponding parallels of Romanic languages, that shows a certain similarity and peculiarity in their lexico-semantic development.