1. Latin also included vocabulary borrowed from Oscan, another Italic language.

2. Brute (adj.) early 15c., "of or belonging to animals, non-human," from Old French brut "coarse, brutal, raw, crude," from Latin brutus "heavy, dull, stupid, insensible, unreasonable" (source also of Spanish and Italian bruto), said to be an Oscan word, from PIE *gwruto-, suffixed form of root *gwere-(1) "heavy." Before reaching English the meaning expanded to "of the lower animals."