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For some words, as Cicero1 says,
are native, that is to say, are used in their original
meaning, while others are derivative, that is to say,
formed from the native. Granted then that we
are not justified in coining entirely new words
having no resemblance to the words invented by
primitive man, I must still ask at what date we were
first forbidden to form derivatives and to modify
and compound words, processes which were undoubtedly permitted to later generations of mankind.
If, however,
1 Part Or. v. 16.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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