Anglo-Latin
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Anglo-Latin
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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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
Anglo-Latin riddlers often put their collections together in a very particular order involving elaborate acrostics.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
St. Aldhelm, Abbot, afterwards Bishop of Malmesbury, was regarded by King Alfred as the prince of Anglo-Latin poets.
From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone
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 John Earle
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