The Logophilia Latin Lessons Programme | Summer 2025

Latin has contributed about 58% of all (common) words in English. That makes Latin the (unofficial) mother of English Vocabulary. You cannot claim to know English if you don't know Latin roots. Start here to learn more than 300 Latin roots!

Did you know that while Greek is the language of Science, Latin is the language of everything! If English is the world’s largest language, sitting bossily at 1 million words, Latin accounts for 58% of these words (29% directly, and 29% through its daughter → French). Does this mean you need to learn Latin as a language? No. Just Latin roots that have crept into the English language. Logophilia Latin Lessons (LLL) is the second oldest Logophilia workshop. Launched in January, 2011, LLL brings together upwards of 300 Latin roots in English, arranged into subject categories. Students who study Latin roots would find it significantly easy to read the…