单词 | low latin |
释义 | > as lemmasLow Latin Low Latin n. and adj. [= French bas-latin] (a) n. any form of post-classical Latin; esp. late Latin; (b) adj. of or relating to this.This term has been applied to post-classical Latin of various periods, but is no longer widely used in view of its negative connotations. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Latin > medieval or modern modern Latin1677 Low Latin1704 Middle Latin1781 neo-Latin1850 1704 J. Ozell tr. C. Perrault Characters Greatest Men in France I. 150 He hath made, for this purpose, Glossaries of the Mean and Low Latin. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Minstrel, n. s. [menestril, Spanish; menestrallus, low Latin]. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 159 The Hanseatic league derives its name from the Low Latin ‘hansa’. 1914 Mod. Philol. 11 8 It is most probable that Burton, that omnivorous reader of Latin and low-Latin literature, refers to the Latin epigram. 1999 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide I. i. 225/1 The old language of Mirandês, derived possibly from an early language of Spain's Leon or from Low Latin. < as lemmas |
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