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Middle English??
Mantling a post is one thing, but a whole language?!
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Would 1362 be Middle English? From the Online Etymology Dict.:
contra - 1362, from L. contra (prep. and adv.) "against," originally "in comparison with," ablative singular feminine of *com-teros, from Old L. com "with, together" + -tr, zero degree of the comp. suffix -ter-. The L. word was used as a prefix in L.L.; in Fr. it became contre- and passed into Eng. as counter-. The Nicaraguan Contra "anti-Sandanista" (1981) is short for contrarrevolucionario "counter-revolutionary." http://www.etymonline.com/c8etym.htm
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<i>Would 1362 be Middle English?<i>
Yes. From somewheres around 1100 to 1450ish CE, I'd say.
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BCE
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If that's Middle, what's Old, Paleolithic?
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Sorry, that should be CE, not BCE. My, my, my ...
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Well, at least it predates Latin that way.
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