Latin influence in English entered English, or in what form. Some words have come into English from Latin more than once, through French or another Romance language at one time and directly from Latin at another. Thus we have pairs like fragile/frail, army/armada, corona/crown, ratio/reason, and rotund/round. The first word in each pair came directly from Latin, while the second entered English from French (or Spanish, in the case of "armada"). In addition, some words have entered English twice from French, with the result that they have the same source, but different pronunciations reflecting changing pronunciation in French, for example chief/chef (the former a
Hiberno-Latin be to cast ridicule on these Vatican-oriented writers by blending their stylistic tricks with incompetent scansion and applying them to unworthy subjects. On a much more intelligible level, the sixth-century Abecedarian hymn "Altus prosator" shows many of the features of Hiberno-Latin: the word "prosator", the "first sower" meaning "creator", refers to God using an unusual neologism. The text of the poem also contains the word "iduma", meaning "hands;" this is probably from Hebrew "yadaim". The poem is also an extended alphabetical acrostic, another example of the wordplay typical of Hiberno-Latin. Irish (but not Continental) manuscripts traditionally attributed the poem to