Tatsama

Tatsama (Sanskrit: तत्सम, ) are Sanskrit loanwords in modern Indic languages like Bengali, Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, Sinhala and Dravidian languages like Kannada and Telugu. They belong to a higher and more erudite register than common words. That register can be compared to the use of words of Greek origin in English (e.g. hubris), although all of these languages excepting the Dravidian ones ultimately descend from Sanskrit, which is not the case with English and Greek or Latin.