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    Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. In this region it served as the primary written...
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    modern Romance languages. In Latin's usage beyond the early medieval period, it lacked native speakers. Medieval Latin was used across Western and Catholic...
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    including the development in Medieval Latin of lower-case, forms which did not exist in the Classical period alphabet. The Latin alphabet evolved from the...
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    of Latin was used between the eras of Classical Latin and Medieval Latin. Scholars do not agree exactly when Classical Latin should end or Medieval Latin...
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    spreading to French and other languages in the nineteenth century. Medieval Latin had diverged quite substantially from the classical standard and saw...
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    the distinctive Latin style developed by the humanist movement. Neo-Latin, or New Latin, is applied to Latin written after the medieval period according...
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  • This article lists direct English translations of common Latin phrases. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases. Assertions,...
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    of the Renaissance humanists, and as such their Latin style sought to purge Latin of the medieval Latin vocabulary and stylistic accretions that it had...
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    Gymnasium. Latin schools were also established in Colonial America. Emphasis was placed on learning Latin, initially in its Medieval Latin form. Grammar...
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    Christian alike. The history of medieval philosophy is traditionally divided into two main periods: the period in the Latin West following the Early Middle...
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    Europe, medieval literature was written in Ethiopic, Syriac, Coptic, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic, among many other languages. In Western Europe, Latin was...
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  • and never made it to being recited without song or other music. In medieval Latin, while verse in the old quantitative meters continued to be written...
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    Ecclesiastical Latin, also called Church Latin or Liturgical Latin, is a form of Latin developed to discuss Christian thought in Late antiquity and used...
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    used in European, Old Russian, medieval Latin, Muslim, Gnostic, Hebrew, and other literatures. In the book "Medieval Latin visions", Russian philologist...
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  • vocabularies The following plant names entered medieval Latin texts from Arabic. Today, in descent from the medieval Latin, they are international systematic classification...
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  • in medieval Arabic as a commander on land (not sea). In medieval Latin it has lots records as a specifically Muslim military leader or emir. A Latin record...
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  • It was customary in the European Middle Ages, more precisely in the period of scholasticism which extended into early modern times, to designate the more...
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    Arabic philosophical texts into Latin "led to the transformation of almost all philosophical disciplines in the medieval Latin world", with a particularly...
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    Middle Ages (redirect from Medieval (term))
    (d. 1707). The adjective medieval, meaning pertaining to the Middle Ages, derives from medium aevum ('middle age'), a Neo-Latin term first recorded in 1604...
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    word "commune" (Italian: comune) appears in Latin records in various forms. They come from Medieval Latin communia, plural form of commune (that which...
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  • al-ʾanbīq in Medieval Latin as alembicus, alembic. Arabic al-dabarān in Medieval Latin as Aldebaran, Aldebaran. Arabic al-ḥinnāʾ in Medieval Latin as alchanna...
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  • Renaissance Latin authors were to a large extent successful in removing innovations in grammar, spelling and vocabulary present in Medieval Latin but absent...
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    editions of texts originally written in medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, Old English, and the languages of the medieval Iberian peninsula, with facing-page...
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  • and Medieval Latin, if somewhat inconsistently, and classical Latin usages are very relevant in medieval Latin. The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from...
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    Dacia (/ˈdeɪʃə/, DAY-shə; Latin: [ˈd̪aː.ki.a]) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south...
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    Empire, the medieval period of the Byzantine Empire, and the late medieval Latin Empire, all of which called themselves "Roman". The term "Latin" has been...
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    the Latin vernacular), contrasted with latine loqui, "to speak in Latin" (Medieval Latin, the conservative version of the language used in writing and formal...
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  • British Latin or British Vulgar Latin was the Vulgar Latin spoken in Great Britain in the Roman and sub-Roman periods. While Britain formed part of the...
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  • Latin, non-standard Latin language variety spoken by the people of Ancient Rome Medieval Latin, Latin language of the Medieval era Renaissance Latin,...
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  • The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources ("DMLBS") is a lexicon of Medieval Latin published by the British Academy. The dictionary is not...
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