noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012adjective
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denoting or relating to New Latin
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denoting or relating to language that developed from Latin; Romance
Etymology
Origin of Neo-Latin
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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These Yugo-Slavs are in their turn severed by the Rumanians of Neo-Latin speech from their northern and eastern brethren, the Ruthenians, Poles, Great and Little Russians.
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Many of the ingredients of the Neo-Latin dialects must be sought for in the ancient dialects of Italy and her provinces.
From Project Gutenberg
Some of these "Neo-Latin" and "Neo-Greek" words are extraordinary in themselves and obscure in their origin, though not through antiquity.
From Project Gutenberg
It found its climax in Dante and Eckhart, the greatest poet of the Neo-Latin race, and the most illumined religious genius of Germany.
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All authors and notable partisans of Neo-Latin universal languages shall meet in a special academy, which will elaborate a compromise-language.
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