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Middle Latin

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  • noun A form of the Latin language used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange and as the liturgical language of the medieval Roman Catholic Church, but also as a language of science, literature, law, and administration.

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Examples

  • Sure in Dutch and German there's quite a few very early loanwords like the word for 'horse' paard/pferd from Middle Latin paraveredus and kasteel 'castle' from castellum or maybe an early french dialect without vocalisation of the l.

    Searching for an etymology for Germanic *handuz 'hand' 2009

  • At times it was posited that caucus came from the Middle Latin word for drinking cup.

    Ready, Set, Caucus 2008

  • Its name comes from Arabic rahj al-ghar - 'powder of the mine,' via Catalan, Middle Latin, and Middle English, though this comes through a misreading, the original name was rahj al-f?

    Sadly, No! 2008

  • Seven Love Poems from the Middle Latin and Huncke's Journal in 1965.

    Comments for RealityStudio Dan Lower 2010

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Words with the same meaning

  1. Medieval Latin

relateds (2)

relateds

  1. Ecclesiastical Latin
  2. Late Latin

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