Low Latin

Anyway, if the OEH of Beowulf is, in fact, an elite cultural language, whereas Old French and Old Spanish are non-elite versions of Low Latin comparable to OEL and contrastive to High Latin, my inuition would gain some support.

languagehat.com: FREE HIGHBEAM TRIAL. 2005

French, from the Low Latin _fata_, misunderstood as a feminine singular; it is in fact the plural of _Fatum_, and means "the Fates."

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

There the Theocritus of the West dares to use not merely the words of common speech and primitive origin, but words drawn from Low Latin and of administrative connotation.

The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

The metamorphosis, under the action of influences now no longer traceable, of Low Latin into Romance did not proceed along the same lines everywhere in Gaul.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

There the Theocritus of the West dares to use not merely the words of common speech and primitive origin, but words drawn from Low Latin and of administrative connotation.

The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

But Prof. Skeat and Scheler see no reason why it should not be direct from French _refuser_ and Low Latin _refusare_, from

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

The name marmot comes from French marmotte, from Old French marmotan, marmontaine, from Old Franco-Provençal, from Low Latin mures montani "mountain mouse", from Latin mures monti, from Classical Latin mures alpini "Alps mouse".

Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective 2009

(and sometimes termed, less accurately, Low Latin), is no less respectable in point of antiquity than the noble Latin of our classics.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

a _baccalaria_ (from _baccalia_, a herd of cows, _bacca_ being a Low Latin variant of _vacca_), which was presumably at first a grazing farm and was practically the same as a _vaselleria_, _i. e._ the fief of a sub-vassal.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

The general sense of peart is lively, either in body or mind.] [Footnote 15: Mr. Lowell suggested to me in 1869 that this word 'low has no kinship with allow, but is an independent word for which he gave a Low Latin original of similar sound.

The Hoosier Schoolmaster Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 1871