Words from the Latin

“Sixty percent of the English language comes from Latin. In this section of Enhance My Vocabulary, you'll find many examples of Latin words and the English words derived from them. This is not an exhaustive list but will give you a good feel for the Latin roots of English.”

“Before about the middle of the third century BC, very few places outside central Italy spoke Latin.  It was only beginning with Rome's victories in theFirst and Second Punic Wars (264-241 BC and 218-201 BC respectively) that Latin began serious expansion into Southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia.”

http://www.enhancemyvocabulary.com/word-roots_latin.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_words_with_English_derivatives

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Roman_rule_in_Britain

http://www.britannia.com/history/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_conquest_of_Italy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_Roman_Empire

http://www.quora.com/How-did-Latin-supplant-Greek-as-the-dominant-language-in-the-Mediterranean-world

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/romerepublic/qt/080807Rmnxpnsn.htm

http://raulhenriquez.blogspot.com/2009/06/la-civilizacion-romana.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_influence_in_English