Low Latin

American  

noun

1. any form of nonclassical Latin, as Late Latin, Vulgar Latin, or Medieval Latin. LL, L.L.

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Low Latin British  

noun

1. any form or dialect of Latin other than the classical, such as Vulgar or Medieval Latin

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Etymology

Origin of Low Latin

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

The Kúfiyah or head-kerchief of the Arabs soon reached Europe and became in Low Latin Cuphia; in Spanish Escofia; in Ital.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The Low Latin equivalent of the Arabic tubbāq "styptic," is bitumen, whence Portuguese betume, and French betun, petun.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 by Various

Ducange, in his Lexicon of Low Latin, gives Choulla, French choule = “Globulus ligneus qui clava propellitur”—a wooden ball struck with a club.

From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various

Another derivation is from the Low Latin, "tricator," a deceiver.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

Far in the north of Spain, however, among the Christians who had adopted the Low Latin, was the formation of the Spanish language.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)