Definition of Late Latin. Meaning of Late Latin. Synonyms of Late Latin

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Definition of Late Latin

Late Latin
Latin Lat"in, n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman. 2. The language of the ancient Romans. 3. An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin. [Obs.] --Ascham. 4. (Eccl.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church. Dog Latin, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin; as, the log Latin of schoolboys. Late Latin, Low Latin, terms used indifferently to designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low Latin (and, perhaps, late Latin also), including the barbarous coinages from the French, German, and other languages into a Latin form made after the Latin had become a dead language for the people. Law Latin, that kind of late, or low, Latin, used in statutes and legal instruments; -- often barbarous.

Meaning of Late Latin from wikipedia

- Late Latin is the scholarly name for the form of Literary[citation needed] Latin of late antiquity. English dictionary definitions of Late Latin date this...
- Latin (lingua Latina, Latin: [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna], or Latinum, Latin: [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European...
- Vulgar Latin, also known as Po****r or Colloquial Latin, is the range of non-formal registers of Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onward. Vulgar...
- literature, law, and administration. Medieval Latin represented a continuation of classical Latin and Late Latin, with enhancements for new concepts as well...
- classical Latin is the form of Literary Latin recognized as a literary standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. It formed...
- Latin is a member of the broad family of Italic languages. Its alphabet, the Latin alphabet, emerged from the Old Italic alphabets, which in turn were...
- Ecclesiastical Latin, also called Church Latin or Liturgical Latin, is a form of Latin developed to discuss Christian thought in Late antiquity and used...
- with what features can be deduced for classical Latin as it was spoken by the educated from the late Roman Republic to the early Empire. Evidence comes...
- Neo-Latin (sometimes called New Latin or Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first...
- Old Latin, also known as Early Latin or Archaic Latin (classical Latin: prīsca Latīnitās, lit. 'ancient Latinity'), was the Latin language in the period...