noun
adjective
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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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Leaving out of consideration the smaller ingredients, we find, on comparing the Teutonic with the Latin, or Neo-Latin or Norman elements in English, that the latter have a decided majority over the home-grown Saxon terms.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
Arabic metre so far resembles that of Greece and Rome that the value of syllables depends upon the "quantity" or position of their consonants, not upon accent as in English and the Neo-Latin tongues.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
All authors and notable partisans of Neo-Latin universal languages shall meet in a special academy, which will elaborate a compromise-language.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
These have been grouped together by certain adversaries as "Neo-Roman"; but their partisans seem to prefer the collective term "Neo-Latin."
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
Neo-Latin literature dwindled away to nothing, and Palladio was followed by the violent reactionaries of the barocco mannerism.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
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