'Late Latin' definitions:
Definition of 'Late Latin'
(from WordNet)
noun
The form of Latin written between the 3rd and 8th centuries [syn: Late Latin, Biblical Latin]
Definition of 'Late Latin'
From: GCIDE
- Latin \Lat"in\, n.
- 1. A native or inhabitant of Latium; a Roman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The language of the ancient Romans. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin. [Obs.] --Ascham. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Eccl.) A member of the Roman Catholic Church. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]