Vulgar Latin

See also: vulgärlatin and vulgærlatin

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. 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: 通俗拉丁語／通俗拉丁语 (tōngsú Lādīngyǔ)

• Czech: vulgární latina f
• Danish: vulgærlatin n
• Dutch: vulgair Latijn n
• Faroese: talumálslatín n
• Finnish: kansanlatina, kyökkilatina, munkkilatina (fi), vulgaarilatina (fi), vulgäärilatina (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)
• Hungarian: vulgáris latin (hu)
• Irish: Laidin na ndaoine f
• Italian: latino volgare (it) m
• Japanese: 俗ラテン語 (ja) (ぞくラテンご, zoku 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

See also

• (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
• Wiktionary’s coverage of Vulgar Latin