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

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

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

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

It appears in Anglo-French documents as lete and in Anglo-Latin as leta.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

Sir Thomas Brown, whose life Johnson wrote, was remarkably fond of Anglo-Latin diction; and to his example we are to ascribe Johnson's sometimes indulging himself in this kind of phraseology.

From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Osgood, Charles Grosvenor