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ˌneo-ˈLatin
Also Neo-Latin.
[f. neo- + Latin n.]
a. = romance n. 1.
b. Latin in use since the end of the Renaissance. Also attrib. or as adj. Hence ˌneo-ˈLatinist, a writer of neo-Latin.
1850Gentl. Mag. CXX. i. 143 The Neo-Latin or French dialect of the intruders. 1880–1L. Bonaparte in Trans. Philol. Soc. i. App. iii. *47 That the Latin neuter gender..has almost disappeared from the greater number of the Neo-Latin dialects. 1946H. Jacob On Choice of Common Lang. 16 Idiom Neutral is considered a neo-Latin rather than an autonomic system. 1951[see copulative a. 1]. 1964Archivum Linguisticum XVI. 4 The author's uniquely panoramic view of the neo-Latin languages. 1965J. Lawlor in J. Gibb Light on C. S. Lewis 79 Lewis consistently turned his neo-Latin authors into sixteenth-century English. 1966English Studies XLVII. 150 Miss Røstvig stresses the importance of the hitherto neglected neo-Latinist Casimir Sarbiewski. 1970B. M. H. Strang Hist. English 130 These learned written sources, usually referred to as Neo-Latin, are not confined to the donation of whole words. Ibid., The following suffixes come from Neo-Latin. |