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Classical Latin

noun

  1. the form of Latin used in classical literature, especially the literary Latin of the 1st century b.c. and the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d.


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Example Sentences

English was the common language, spattered with classical Latin.

It encompassed fine art and classical Latin — Ms. Mayer was educated at the elite National Cathedral School in Washington — as well as references to 1950s television shows and seemingly every character represented at Comic-Con, the international comics festival that she reliably covered for NPR, in full costume and with gusto.

The Romans, characteristically, lacked a term for ‘innovation’: the meaning given by Lewis and Short’s dictionary for classical Latin instauratio is ‘a renewing, renewal, repetition’; the first meaning given for classical innovo is ‘renew’, and for post-classical innovation ‘renewal’.

Of Latin origin in that philosophia and philosophus were naturalized in classical Latin, although their origins are Greek.

In classical Latin satellitium means an escort or guard.

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