All big words in English are Latin and Greek. The left would be crushed in the US if people knew that "liber" (root of word liberal) meant people who paid no or little taxes, who had the right to own weapons, who chose their own educations, negotiated their own wages, had freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Modern liberals oppose all of these things but think a responsible rich guy should manage everything in your life. There was a word for this aswell, "servi" which translates to slave (the root of the word servant). I am a classical liberal, the opposite of a modern liberal.