Anglo-Latin
English
Etymology
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Proper noun
- Medieval Latin language as used in Britain, especially ecclesiastical and legal Latin.
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Usage notes
- The period begins with the arrival of Augustine in Britain in 597 AD and is sometimes considered to end in 1066 AD, though writing in Latin in Britain continued to the fifteenth century and beyond.
Citations
- 1899 (also 1907), Count Lützow, A History of Bohemian Literature (series: Short Histories of the Literatures of the World, edited by Edmund Gosse), p. 287:
- Anglo-Latin versions are numerous, the last having been published at Oxford in 1800.
References
- “Anglo-Latin”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “Anglo-Latin”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.