Anglo-Latin
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Anglo-Latin
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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Anglo-Latin riddlers often put their collections together in a very particular order involving elaborate acrostics.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021
The Anglo-Latin riddler Tatwine — whose day job was archbishop of Canterbury — wrote these kinds of proto-cryptic aenigmata.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021
To crack Old English riddles from the Exeter Book, you have to know about their Anglo-Latin predecessors.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021
Aldhelm is the first of the Anglo-Latin poets, and he was a classical scholar at a time when to be so was a great distinction.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by Earle, John
But in a Latin Dictionary published at Cambridge in 1693, I find in the Anglo-Latin part the following:— English.
From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 83, May 31, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc by Various
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