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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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 Clark, Walter John
The Byzantine basilica was slowly transformed into the Neo-Latin house, and thus, in this important domain also, Europe drew her inspirations from antiquity.
From The Evolution of Love by Schleussner, Ellie
Some of these "Neo-Latin" and "Neo-Greek" words are extraordinary in themselves and obscure in their origin, though not through antiquity.
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis
Neo-Latin Poetry The chief pride of the humanists is, however, their modern Latin poetry.
From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt, Jacob
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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