Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Medieval Latin as used in England.

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  • proper noun Medieval Latin language as used in Britain, especially ecclesiastical and legal Latin.
  • proper noun Term derived from the Anglo-Latin medioeval language, such as hearse, herald and prong.

Etymologies

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Originated 1785–95 from Anglo +‎ Latin.

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Examples

  • In doing so, they forget the influence of what Clark calls the Anglo-Latin culture that flourished until the 1760s and continued into the nineteenth century.

    Hay, Samuel Johnson 1996

  • From Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum, an Anglo-Latin lexicon from c. 1440:

    et patati et patata - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • From Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum, an Anglo-Latin lexicon from c.1440:

    et patati et patata - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • We invite submissions addressing any and all manifestations of pleasure in Old English or Anglo-Latin texts, Anglo-Saxon history, art, religion, or archaeology.

    ASSC Call For Papers Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • We invite submissions addressing any and all manifestations of pleasure in Old English or Anglo-Latin texts, Anglo-Saxon history, art, religion, or archaeology.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • Sir Thomas Brown, whose life Johnson wrote, was remarkably fond of Anglo-Latin diction; and to his example we are to ascribe

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • Johnson's ideological affinities are important to Clark's wider discussion of the conflict between Anglo-Latin and vernacular culture.

    Hay, Samuel Johnson 1996

  • The collapse of Jacobitism in the 1740s and 50s marked the Anglo-Latin traditions decline.

    Hay, Samuel Johnson 1996

  • The life and work of Samuel Johnson provide the framework for Clark's study because Johnson's place in the Anglo-Latin tradition and his support for its political commitments make him its most noted exponent.

    Hay, Samuel Johnson 1996

  • Clark thus seeks to recover the Anglo-Latin tradition from a retrospective historiography that dismissed it as a dying idiom that had already given way to English.

    Hay, Samuel Johnson 1996

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