Late Latin

American  

noun

1. the Latin of the late Western Roman Empire and of patristic literature, from about a.d. 150 to 700. LL, L.L.

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Late Latin British  

noun

1. the form of written Latin used from the 3rd to the 7th centuries _ad See also Biblical Latin Medieval Latin

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Etymology

Origin of Late Latin

First recorded in 1845–50

Example Sentences

The name peach comes to us from the Late Latin word pessica, which was a bad way of saying "Persica."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)

This is from a Late Latin diminutive aulæolum, a small chapel or shrine, which was dissimilated into auræolum.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

This was connected with the verb διαιτᾶν, in the sense of “to rule,” “to regulate”; compare the office of διαιτητής at Athens, and dieteta, “umpire,” in Late Latin.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

Our word 'squirrel' comes through the Late Latin diminutive forms, scuriolus, squirolus, squirelus.

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.

It was meant by them to show contempt, and came from the Italian word cavaliere, which means literally "a horseman," coming from the Late Latin word caballus, "a horse."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)