Classical Latin

noun

the form of Latin used in classical literature, especially the literary Latin of the 1st century b.c. and the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d.

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English was the common language, spattered with classical Latin.

It encompassed fine art and classical Latin — Ms. Mayer was educated at the elite National Cathedral School in Washington — as well as references to 1950s television shows and seemingly every character represented at Comic-Con, the international comics festival that she reliably covered for NPR, in full costume and with gusto.

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Of Latin origin in that philosophia and philosophus were naturalized in classical Latin, although their origins are Greek.

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In classical Latin satellitium means an escort or guard.

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Because it did not exist in classical Latin discooperio never established itself as a respectable term; in any case, discovery was such a new concept that at first it required explication.

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