Citations:Late Latin

English citations of Late Latin

  • 2003, Natalie Harwood, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Latin, 2nd illustrated edition, Penguin, →ISBN, page 13:
    Late Latin, also known as Medieval Latin or Church Latin, is the language of European monasteries, cathedrals, and schools of the sixth to the sixteenth centuries.
    It's an "Idiot's Guide" – Late Latin, Medieval Latin and Church Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin are different things.
  • 2005, Michael D. Fortescue, Historical linguistics 2003: selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11-15 August 2003, illustrated edition, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 137:
    Schøsler (2001) studies the expression of the category of definiteness (and the rise of the definite article) from Latin to Modern French, showing the evolutions along the sucessive synchronies of the same language (Classical Latin, Late Latin, Old French, Early Modern French, Modern French).
  • 2005, Ole Thomsen, Classica Et Mediaevalia: Revue Danoise De Philologie Et D'histoire, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 326:
    In Classical Latin gyrus means 'circle' and is used of the circular movement of a creature or an object and in gyro means 'in a circle'. In Late Latin we find in gyro as a preposition with the genitive or with the accusative; this usage is found especially in some Christian texts.
  • 2008, Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, edited by Alexander Lubotsky, volume 7), p. 14:
    Following Weiss (fthc.a), I adopt the following periodization of Latin:
6th century – 240 BC Very Old Latin (VOLat.)
240 – 50 BC Old Latin (OLat.)
50 BC – 3rd/4th c. Classical Latin (CLat.)
3rd/4th c. – 5th/6th c. Late Latin (LLat.)