Anglo-Latin

[ang-gloh-lat-n]

noun

1. Medieval Latin as used in England. AL, AL., A.L.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Anglo-Latin¹

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

“Anglo-Latin” is Latin that was written in England.

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To crack Old English riddles from the Exeter Book, you have to know about their Anglo-Latin predecessors.

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Anglo-Latin riddlers often put their collections together in a very particular order involving elaborate acrostics.

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The Anglo-Latin riddler Tatwine — whose day job was archbishop of Canterbury — wrote these kinds of proto-cryptic aenigmata.

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Annaquil, of whom our knowledge is extremely scanty, wrote, for the use more immediately of his own pupils, Compendium Grammatices, with an Anglo-Latin version of the Vulgaria of Terence annexed.

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