Vulgate

[ vuhl-geyt, -git ]

noun

1. the Latin version of the Bible, prepared chiefly by Saint Jerome at the end of the 4th century a.d., and used as the authorized version of the Roman Catholic Church.
2. (lowercase) any commonly recognized text or version of a work.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Vulgate.
2. (lowercase) commonly used or accepted; common.

vulgate

¹

/ ˈvʌlɡeɪt; -ɡɪt /

noun

1. a commonly recognized text or version
2. everyday or informal speech; the vernacular

adjective

1. generally accepted; common

Vulgate

²

/ -ɡɪt; ˈvʌlɡeɪt /

noun

1. 1. (from the 13th century onwards) the fourth-century version of the Bible produced by Jerome, partly by translating the original languages, and partly by revising the earlier Latin text based on the Greek versions
   2. ( as modifier )

      the Vulgate version

Word History and Origins

Origin of Vulgate¹

< Late Latin vulgāta ( editiō ) popular (edition); vulgāta, feminine past participle of vulgāre to make common, publish, derivative of vulgus the public. See vulgar, -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of Vulgate¹

C17: from Medieval Latin Vulgāta, from Late Latin vulgāta editiō popular version (of the Bible), from Latin vulgāre to make common, from vulgus the common people

Example Sentences

Prior to this, most men and women in Europe were exposed to the Bible through the Vulgate, a Latin version of the Old and New Testaments that only educated men – mostly Catholic priests – could read.

From Salon

The title — “behold the man,” Pontius Pilate’s words, in Vulgate Latin, as he displayed Jesus to the angry crowd — evokes Western culture’s oldest and best known story of a man transmuting persecution into glory.

From New York Times

He explained that the Douay-Rheims Bible is a translation of the Vulgate, a Latin translation of the Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament.

From Seattle Times

The handwritten fragments are thought to come from the Vulgate Cycle or Lancelot-Grail Cycle, an Old French sequence of texts that dates back to the 13th century, according to the researchers.

From Fox News

His motivation was to better Christianity by correcting corruptions of the original Greek that had insinuated themselves into the Latin Vulgate.

From New York Times