neo-Latinadj.n.
/ˌniːə(ʊ)ˈlatɪn/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈlætn/ A. adj.
a. Of or relating to the Romance languages as a group, or to any one of them; formerly spec. used to designate the vernacular language of medieval France, as opposed to Latin (now rare).
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance
romance1348
Romanesque1666
Roman1789
romancy1836
neo-Latin1850
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
1850 Gentleman's Mag. 120 i. 143 The Neo-Latin or French dialect of the intruders.
1880–1 L. 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.
1964 Archivum Linguisticum 16 4 The author's uniquely panoramic view of the neo-Latin languages.
b. Of or relating to Latin as used since the late 14th cent. by authors seeking (esp. during the Renaissance) to emulate classical rather than medieval models.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Italic > of or relating to Latin
Latinc950
Romana1393
Latinisha1603
Latinic1875
Latinate1904
neo-Latin1922
1922 Nature 15 Apr. 494/1 A language of the Neo-Latin type, somewhat similar to Neutral Idiom, is the ‘Panroman’ (or ‘Universal’) of the German positivist and pacifist, Dr. H. Molenaar.
1946 H. Jacob On Choice of Common Lang. 16 Idiom Neutral is considered a neo-Latin rather than an autonomic system.
1965 J. Lawlor in J. Gibb Light on C. S. Lewis 79 Lewis consistently turned his neo-Latin authors into sixteenth-century English.
1981 Notes & Queries Dec. 530/1 The appearance of three Neo-Latin anthologies..so close together is a welcome sign of renewed interest in Renaissance Latin.
2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Sept. 73/4 It is the world of neo-Latin letters that bred Alberti and gave him his start.
B. n.
a. The Romance languages; formerly spec. denoting the vernacular language of medieval France (now rare).
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > French > Old French
romaunt1481
Old French1673
OF1708
neo-Latin1881
1881 Science 26 Feb. 86/1 The object..was to follow the history of the Latin rules respecting the sequence of moods in complex sentences in the languages of Southern Europe, commonly called Romance or Neo-Latin.
b. Latin as used since the late 14th cent. by authors concerned to emulate classical rather than medieval models; esp. Renaissance Latin.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Latin > literary Latin
bookledenOE
classical Latin?1676
classical language1752
book Latin1773
neo-Latin1899
1899 Mind 8 474 The downfall of the European language of scholars, of neo-Latin.
1951 A. G. Hatcher (title) Modern English word-formation and neo-Latin: a study of the origins of..copulative compounds.
1970 B. M. H. Strang Hist. Eng. 130 These learned written sources, usually referred to as Neo-Latin, are not confined to the donation of whole words.
1990 R. J. Schoeck in J. MacQueen Humanism in Renaissance Scotl. i. 3 Renaissance humanism called for the writing of a great deal of original verse, drama, historical and critical prose, and even fiction, in what is called Neo-Latin, that is Latin written from about 1350 to post-Renaissance periods.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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