Old Latin

American  

noun

1. the Latin language in use from the earliest inscriptions to c100 b.c. OL, OL., O.L.

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Old Latin British  

noun

1. the Latin language before the classical period, up to about 100 _bc

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Etymology

Origin of Old Latin

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

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Old Latin

Very interesting text; in the Epistles and Acts there are a large number of Old Latin readings; the text of the Acts is especially mixed; orthography incorrect.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Platt's Ethiopic, all editions of the Peshitto except Lee's, and Erpenius' Arabic, have τοῦ χριστοῦ, with Origen once, Theodoret twice, and four copies of Athanasius: the Old Latin m reads 'Jesu Christi.'

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Its chief critical use must be to show that the united testimony of the Old Latin, of the Curetonian Syriac, and of Cod.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

The MS. consists of 180 leaves or fragments, written in an Irish hand, but much injured by damp; it contains the four Gospels in the usual Old Latin order, but mut.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Text is Old Latin in the Gospels, Vulgate in the rest of the New Test.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener