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Definition of Old Latin
1. Noun. The oldest recorded Latin (dating back at early as the 6th century B.C.).
Definition of Old Latin
1. Proper noun. The Latin language in the period before the age of Classical Latin; that is, all Latin before 75 BC. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Latin
Literary usage of Old Latin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(1) Old Latin.—Some 40 MSS. have preserved to us a text which antedates the
translation of St. Jerome; they are designated by small letters. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"But a decision is difficult, since Jerome actually leans more upon the Old Latin.
Since the uniform adoption of the third ..."
3. Journal of Theological Studies (1904)
"HM BANNISTER NOTES AND STUDIES: THE Old Latin TEXTS OF THE MINOR PROPHETS. ...
WOE OESTERLEY, BD A RE-COLLATION OF CODEZ k OF THE Old Latin GOSPELS. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"408) ; and from this time it is needless to trace its history, though the Old
Latin was not wholly forgotten.* Yet throughout, the New ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"It was not till the 9th century that the Old Latin was entirely superseded in the
... In the history of the Old Latin version almost nothing is certain, ..."
6. The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and by Samuel Rolles Driver, Alfred Plummer, Charles Augustus Briggs (1908)
"THE Old Latin VERSION. The Old Latin version was made from the LXX in the middle of
... 145^., publishes a specimen of an Old Latin text of Esther from ms. ..."
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