Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • New Latin: an epithet applied to the Romance languages, as having grown immediately out of the Latin.
  • Latin as written by authors of modern times.
  • noun One who speaks a neo-Latin or Romance language.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Applied to the Romance languages, as being mostly of Latin origin.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun Latin since the Renaissance; used for scientific nomenclature

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  • An analytic bibliography of on-line neo-latin texts, by Dana F. Sutton, The University of California, Irvine.

    Descartes and the Pineal Gland Lokhorst, Gert-Jan 2008

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