Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Latin language as used from about 700 to about 1500.
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- proper noun The
Latin language as spoken and written during theMiddle Ages .
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- noun Latin used for liturgical purposes during the Middle Ages
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French had borrowed the word from Medieval Latin, in which luxuria was sometimes personified as Lust or Gluttony or Greed.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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French had borrowed the word from Medieval Latin, in which luxuria was sometimes personified as Lust or Gluttony or Greed.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Carol Witt@936: Someone on the LatinStudy list said much the same; "insquequo" and "exulans" are apparently Medieval Latin, which is why they didn't show up in my Classical reference works.
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By this time, Saint Jerome had translated the Bible from Ancient Greek and Hebrew, as well as Aramaic and Old Latin, into one linguistically consistent sacred text in Medieval Latin, further solidifying the centrality of the language throughout the Christian Middle Ages.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Medieval Latin had built its own word for a “depending” structure, the appendicium, which medieval French had reworked into pentiz.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Medieval Latin had built its own word for a “depending” structure, the appendicium, which medieval French had reworked into pentiz.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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And just as Germanic languages were injecting fresh words and ideas into Medieval Latin, so too did the culture of financial services shift under new influences from the East.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin litteralis, from Latin, of a letter, from littera letter
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Etymology: Medieval Latin, from Latin, meeting of three ways, crossroads
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Anglo-French motif, from Middle French motif adjective, moving, from Medieval Latin motivus, from Latin motus, past participle of movÄre to move
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