La atracción paronímica en los textos médicos medievalesnotas de lectura

  1. Montero Cartelle, Emilio
  2. Herrero Ingelmo, María Cruz
Zeitschrift:
Voces

ISSN: 1130-3336

Datum der Publikation: 1993

Nummer: 4

Seiten: 21-28

Art: Artikel

Andere Publikationen in: Voces

Zusammenfassung

In this article, which is essentially concerned with latin medieval literature of a technical kind, a study is made of several examples of Greek terms which, on account of their foreing origin, proved difficult to understand. The original Greek terms are assimilated to the latin word in order to make understading easier. However, this sometimes leads to changes in their form, and to a lesser extent, their meaning. This phenomenon is one aspect of a process that E. R. Curtius has described as «Etymology as a form of thinking»