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4.2.5. Relations between the different categories 
Finally, I consider it important to say that an interrelation between the data in the different 
tables obtained can also be appreciated. In the following paragraph, I will try to provide 
an example of possible associations of the data obtained, with the aim of demonstrating 

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that the categories of part of speech, semantic field, form and frequency, together with 
the date of introduction of the loanwords, are truly interconnected. 
As expected after considering the theoretical introduction in Chapter 3, the number of 
words that keep their Latin form increased as did the number of scientific terms in the 
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This has to do with the fact that loanwords with Latin 
forms were conceived as better options for the development of the technical vocabulary, 
since they did not lead to confusion by association with native terms and they were 
international. Some examples of scientific terms with Latin forms are caecum, 
cachinnator, galbulus, habenula, ictus, kogia, labellum, nasus, quadrennium and yttrium. 
Likewise, the frequency data is also related with the increase of scientific terms as a result 
of the rapid development of sciences in the Late Modern English period. Since the 
introduction of these loanwords into Modern English was a result of the need to provide 
scientific advances with names, their frequency of current use will be higher than the one 
of those borrowings introduced in the Early Modern English period for prestige reasons. 
By looking at the Appendix, we can indeed appreciate that the majority of loanwords with 
frequency band 2 introduced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries belong to the 
semantic field of sciences. Among those cases of loanwords belonging to the semantic 
field of sciences and showing a frequency band 2, we find words like abac, baccated, 
cachinnate, ebracteolate, galbulus, jaculator, kogia, racemous, sabella and ulex. We can 
conclude, thus, that the predominant introduction of scientific borrowings led to an 
increase concerning the number of loanwords showing that frequency.
Likewise, we could establish this sort of correlations between other categories of the data 
analysed. For instance, words belonging to the semantic field of law tend to maintain their 
Latin form. Indeed, nine out of the fifteen loanwords related with this semantic field show 
a Latin form. These are abandum, abannation, damnosa hereditas, habendum, idiota, 
obiter dictum, oblatio, uberrima fides and vacat. Therefore, the data analysed in the 
previous sections provides a very interesting and useful account of how Latin loanwords 
were introduced along the Modern English period, conveying a relation between their 
degree of integration in the language and the semantic fields they are related to, and also 
showing the influence these parameters have on their current frequency of usage. 

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