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Definition of Classical latin
1. Noun. The language of educated people in ancient Rome. "Latin is a language as dead as dead can be. It killed the ancient Romans--and now it's killing me"
Definition of Classical latin
1. Proper noun. The Latin language as spoken and written in formal speeches, literature, the arts, etc., by the ancient Romans. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Classical latin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"No one need be told that it was the spoken, and not the classical Latin, which
in Italy, Spain, Provence, and Northern France developed into Italian, ..."
2. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane (1903)
"In classical Latin it has further been changed in accented syllables to U: ...
But oe was retained in classical Latin (1.) when a secondary diphthong (48) ..."
3. The History of Normandy and of England by Francis Palgrave (1878)
"classical latin inadequate to Christian literature, p. 58. St. Augustine not only
exemplifies the imperfection of classical latin for Christian instruction, ..."
4. Handbook of Latin Inscriptions, Illustrating the History of the Language by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1897)
"classical latin. 23. The number of Greek words that were being introduced into
the language, and the growing study of Greek Grammar and Phonetics, ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Ecclesiastical differs from classical Latin especially by the introduction of
new idioms and new words. (In syntax and literary method, Christian writers ..."
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