Латинские заимствования в тематической группе среднеанглийских наименований лиц по профессии

Abstract

The paper is designed to study a segment of the Middle English lexicon, namely, loans from Latin into Middle English, and, in particular, the lexico-semantic group of occupational terms. Both common nouns and paroper names are divided into thematic groups and subgroups with the representation of their lexico-semantic and phonographic variations and are are arranged in chronological order. The occupational terms are distributed on a functionasl basis as well, with three subgroups being outlined: names with settled usage, names with unsettled usage, and names with limited usage. The data obtained confirm that borrowings from Latin were scarce, especially in the lexico-semantic domain of occupational terms.