Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Latin as used since about 1500.
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- proper noun The
Latin language spoken and written after theMiddle Ages , includingRenaissance Latin ,Ecclesiastical Latin , and Contemporary Latin.
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- noun Latin since the Renaissance; used for scientific nomenclature
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Examples
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Larva is therefore an appropriate term for that stage of an insect's life during which its final form is still hidden or masked, and New Latin lārva was thus applied in 1691 by Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist who originated our system of classifying plants and animals.
Unmasking religion Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Larva is therefore an appropriate term for that stage of an insect's life during which its final form is still hidden or masked, and New Latin lārva was thus applied in 1691 by Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist who originated our system of classifying plants and animals.
Archive 2009-02-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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• New Latin restaurant from Starr a definite for 2013 Chestnut
The Clog 2009
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• New Latin restaurant from Starr a definite for 2013 Chestnut
The Clog 2009
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However, it now appears to have a far more complicated history: German Bismut came from New Latin bismutum, itself altered from medieval Latin vismutum, from obsolete German Wismut, itself a compound of Wise -, ` meadow, 'plus Mut, ` mine claim'.
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In some cases, the Southern Amerind loanwords acquired by English through the filter of Spanish, Portuguese, French, and New Latin had already passed through another language.
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Taino accounts for 62 (11. 3%) of my exemplars, of which 55 entered English via Spanish, 2 via French, 1 via Portuguese, 3 via New Latin, and 1 directly.
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It accounts for 15 (2. 7%) of my exemplars, of which 5 entered English via French, 4 via New Latin, 2 via Dutch, 1 via Portuguese, and the other 3 directly.
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It accounts for 15 (2. 7%) of my exemplars, of which 6 entered English via Spanish, 1 via New Latin, and the remainder directly.
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The same sources attributed skimmia to New Latin and described Taka-Diastase as a trademark, without stating, unfortunately, whence the trademark came (admittedly the taka could be Japanese in origin; I must confess ignorance on that point).
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