单词 | monk-latin |
释义 | > as lemmasMonk-Latin Monk-Latin n. now rare a form of Latin formerly used by monks. 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 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. vi. 92 Some of us can preach, in English-Saxon, in Norman French, and even in Monk-Latin. 1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 3 A Monk-Latin chronicle. 1899 Cent. Mag. Jan. 415 Carlyle translated with infinite patience the chronicle of garrulous old Jocelin, the language of which is not foreign only, but dead: Monk-Latin lies across not the British Channel, but the ninefold Stygian marshes. 1909 Forum June 542 Nobody but a specialist is ‘charged with knowledge’ of the monk-Latin of ‘the chroniclers’. 1998 M. P. Stitt Metaphors of Change in Lang. 19th-cent. Fiction i. 27 The ‘mild glow of human interest for Abbot Samson’, who seems a man of flesh and blood—who spoke not only Monk-Latin but also a Norfolk dialect. < as lemmas |
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