Definition of Neo-latin

1. Noun. Latin since the Renaissance; used for scientific nomenclature.

Exact synonyms: New Latin
Generic synonyms: Latin

Definition of Neo-latin

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the New Latin language. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Neo-latin

1. Applied to the Romance languages, as being mostly of Latin origin. Origin: Neo- + Latin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Neo-latin

neo-Darwinian
neo-Darwinism
neo-Lamarckian
neo-Luddite
neo-Luddites
neo-McCarthyism
neo-Nazi
neo-Nazis
neo-Nazism
neo-Objectivist
neo-Objectivists
neo-colony
neo-creo
neo-creos
neo-impressionism
neo-latin (current term)
neo-natal
neo-noir
neo-noirs
neo-pagan
neo-paganism
neo-pagans
neo-pantheist
neo-populism
neo jazz
neo soul
neoadjuvant
neoadjuvant therapy
neoagarobiose hydrolase
neoangiogeneses

Literary usage of Neo-latin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Philosophy and Civilization in the Middle Ages by Maurice Wulf (1922)
"Scholastic philosophy the product of Neo-Latin and Anglo- Celtic minds; Germanic contribution virtually negligible. iv. Latin Averroism in the thirteenth ..."

2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1881)
"The sole object of my paper was to shew plural substantives in a in the greatest number of the Neo-Latin dialects in which I had been able to ascertain ..."

3. French Civilization in the Nineteenth Century: A Historical Introduction by Albert Léon Guérard (1918)
"Romanic or Neo-Latin—Flemish, Breton, Basque—: North and South, langue d'oil and langue d'oc; supremacy of Northern French undisputed—French beyond the ..."

4. The History of Normandy and of England by Francis Palgrave (1851)
"Some yet exist the Latin with scarcely any variation from their earliest character in aii the acre sucn as the common dialect of the Sardinian Neo-Latin ..."

5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1841)
"This has been adopted by all the Neo-Latin languages of Europe ; vous autres, vo* otros, vos out r os, voi altri, &c. 10, Relative pronouns ijui, ..."

6. History of Modern Philosophy by Kuno Fischer (1887)
"The Neo-Latin Renaissance. — Ancient classic Rome, her orators and poets, her models and instructors of rhetoric, the systems and conceptions of life, ..."

7. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages by Ferdinand Gregorovius (1902)
"In our modern culture neo-Latin poetry is im- Neo-Latin portant as a stage of purification and of transition ..."

8. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages by Ferdinand Gregorovius (1902)
"neo-latin POETRY—LEO X. AND THE POETS—THE DE POETIS ... In our modern culture neo-Latin poetry is im- Neo-Latin portant as a stage of purification and of ..."

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