Anglo-Latin

English

Etymology

Originated 1785–95 from Anglo- +‎ Latin.

Proper noun

Anglo-Latin

1. Latin language as used in Britain, especially Medieval as well as Ecclesiastical and legal Latin.

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.

Quotations

• 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.

• 2003, Estelle Haan, Andrew Marvell's Latin Poetry: From Text to Context, page 21:

  Thirdly, the piece takes its place within an essentially seventeenth-century Anglo-Latin context.

  Note: Andrew Marvell lived from 1621 till 1678.

• J. W. Binns, Introduction, p. x; in: 2014 (1st publ. 1974), J. W. Binns (ed.), The Latin Poetry of English Poets, Routledge, p. vii ff.:

  In this volume, then, the eighteenth century is represented by Vincent Bourne, the most popular Anglo-Latin poet of his day, whose Poemtata went through numerious editions until 1840, and some of whose best Latin poems were translated by Lamb and Cowper.

  Note: Vincent Bourne lived from 1695 till 1747.

Synonyms

• British Latin

Further reading

• “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.