Anglo-Latin

American  

[ang-gloh-lat-n] / ˈæŋ gloʊˈlæt n /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of Anglo-Latin

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

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

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

The word is derived from the Early English bille, Anglo-Latin billa, from Latin bulla, in the medieval sense of “seal.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

But even before this time Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman literature was similarly affected.

From The Troubadours by Chaytor, H.J.