Late Latin

American  

noun

1. the Latin of the late Western Roman Empire and of patristic literature, from about a.d. 150 to 700. LL, L.L.

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Late Latin British  

noun

1. the form of written Latin used from the 3rd to the 7th centuries _ad See also Biblical Latin Medieval Latin

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Etymology

Origin of Late Latin

First recorded in 1845–50

Example Sentences

Late Latin slang for hirsuta, and always used of nasty places or nasty people; it shall not stay.

From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John

The name peach comes to us from the Late Latin word pessica, which was a bad way of saying "Persica."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)

In Late Latin there was a tendency to this spirant pronunciation which appears as early as the beginning of the 2nd century A.D.; by the 3rd century b and consonantal u are inextricably confused.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

This is from a Late Latin diminutive aulæolum, a small chapel or shrine, which was dissimilated into auræolum.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

It was meant by them to show contempt, and came from the Italian word cavaliere, which means literally "a horseman," coming from the Late Latin word caballus, "a horse."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)