单词 | anglo-latin |
释义 | Anglo-Latinadj.n. A. adj. Designating the Latin language as spoken or written in England (or Britain), esp. in the Middle Ages; of or relating to this. ΚΠ 1783 G. W. Lemon Eng. Etymol. at Equippage The Anglo-Latin word eschipare must be the same, whenever applied to any thing besides horses, and shipping. 1842 T. Wright Biographica Britannica Literaria: Anglo-Saxon Period Introd. 44 The early Anglo-Latin poets delighted in nothing more than ingenious conceits. 1885 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 6 476 If Virgil was thus imitated by the Anglo-Latin poets, is it unlikely that a Virgilian idiom might find its way into Old English poetry? 1939 R. M. Wilson Early Middle Eng. Lit. ii. 51 Epic poetry does not seem to have been in any great favour amongst the Anglo-Latin writers, and only two authors of such poetry are known. 2000 Rev. Eng. Stud. New Ser. 51 101 If Old English and Anglo-Latin literature are not part of ‘medieval English literature’, then what are they part of? B. n. The Latin language as spoken or written in England (or Britain), esp. in the Middle Ages.In quot. 1811: spec. Latin written in an English idiom. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Latin > anglicized or corrupt English Latinc1475 kitchen-Latin1579 law-Latin1615 dog-Latin1661 bog Latin1785 hog Latin1807 Anglo-Latin1811 rogue's Latin1818 Monk-Latin1843 pig Latin1844 1811 Brit. Critic Apr. 348 Perhaps the completest example of what may be called Anglo Latin, that has ever been produced; in which, though the words are generally Latin, the idiom is..completely English. 1862 G. P. Marsh Orig. & Hist. Eng. Lang. v. 248 Anglo-Latin became almost as macaronic as..the Daco-Latin of Wallachia. 1892 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 23 269 The notion of outhest,..representing ME. outhees,..in Anglo-Latin uthesium. 1942 PMLA 57 957 The printed tales differed greatly from the Anglo-Latin on which they were originally based. 2003 Mod. Lang. Rev. 98 266 Neither fourteenth-century Anglo-French nor Anglo-Latin reflects a living vernacular rooted in English soil. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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