Vulgar Latin

See also: vulgärlatin

English

Proper noun

Vulgar Latin

1. (linguistics, historical) The Latin language as spoken by the Roman people, as opposed to Classical Latin as written in formal literature until approximately the 4th century AD. Developed into Proto-Romance and descendant languages in the Early Middle Ages.

Coordinate terms

• (varieties of Latin) Latin; Biblical Latin, Classical Latin, Church Latin / Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin, Low Latin, Medieval Latin / Middle Latin, New Latin / Neo-Latin, Old Latin, Recent Latin / Contemporary Latin, Renaissance Latin, Vulgar Latin

Related terms

• Vulgate

Translations

the Latin language as spoken by people

• Armenian: ժողովրդական լատիներեն (hy) (žoġovrdakan latineren)
• Bulgarian: простонаро́ден лати́нски m (prostonaróden latínski)
• Catalan: llatí vulgar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 粗俗拉丁語／粗俗拉丁语, 粗俗拉丁语 (cūsú Lādīngyǔ)

• Czech: vulgární latina f
• Danish: vulgærlatin n
• Dutch: vulgair Latijn n
• Faroese: talumálslatín n
• Finnish: vulgaarilatina (fi)
• French: latin vulgaire (fr) m
• Galician: latín vulgar (gl) m
• Georgian: ხალხური ლათინური (xalxuri latinuri), ვულგარული ლათინური (vulgaruli latinuri)
• German: Vulgärlatein (de) n
• Greek: Χυδαία λατινικά n pl (Chydaía latiniká)
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• Irish: Laidin na ndaoine f
• Italian: latino volgare m
• Japanese: 一般ラテン語 (いっぱんラテンご, ippan Ratengo)
• Korean: 저속한 라틴어 (jeosokhan Ratin-eo)
• Latin: sermo vulgaris m, lingua Latina vulgaris f
• Norman: Latîn Vuldgaithe m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vulgærlatin m

  Nynorsk: vulgærlatin m

• Polish: łacina ludowa f
• Portuguese: latim vulgar (pt) m
• Romanian: latina vulgară f
• Russian: вульга́рная латы́нь f (vulʹgárnaja latýnʹ), наро́дная латы́нь f (naródnaja latýnʹ)
• Spanish: latín vulgar (es) m
• Swedish: vulgärlatin n