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Vul⋅gate

[vuhl-geyt, -git]
–noun
1. the Latin version of the Bible, prepared chiefly by Saint Jerome at the end of the 4th century a.d., and used as the authorized version of the Roman Catholic Church.
2. (lowercase) any commonly recognized text or version of a work.
–adjective
3. of or pertaining to the Vulgate.
4. (lowercase) commonly used or accepted; common.

Origin:
< LL vulgāta (editiō) popular (edition); vulgāta, fem. ptp. of vulgāre to make common, publish, deriv. of vulgus the public. See vulgar, -ate 1
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vul·gate   (vŭl'gāt', -gĭt)   
n.  
  1. The common speech of a people; the vernacular.

  2. A widely accepted text or version of a work.

  3. Vulgate The Latin edition or translation of the Bible made by Saint Jerome at the end of the fourth century A.D., now used in a revised form as the Roman Catholic authorized version.


[Medieval Latin Vulgāta, from Late Latin vulgāta (editiō), popular (edition), from Latin, feminine past participle of vulgāre, to make known to all, from vulgus, the common people.]
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Word Origin & History

Vulgate 
1609, Latin translation of the Bible, especially that completed in 405 by St. Jerome (c.340-420), from M.L. Vulgata, from L.L. vulgata "common, general, ordinary, popular" (in vulgata editio "popular edition"), from L. vulgata, fem. pp. of vulgare "make common or public," from vulgus "the common people" (see vulgar). So called because the translations made the book accessible to the common people of ancient Rome.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Vulgate

(from the Latin editio vulgata: "common version"), Latin Bible used by the Roman Catholic Church, primarily translated by St. Jerome. In 382 Pope Damasus commissioned Jerome, the leading biblical scholar of his day, to produce an acceptable Latin version of the Bible from the various translations then being used. His revised Latin translation of the Gospels appeared about 383. Using the Septuagint Greek version of the Old Testament, he produced new Latin translations of the Psalms (the so-called Gallican Psalter), the Book of Job, and some other books. Later, he decided that the Septuagint was unsatisfactory and began translating the entire Old Testament from the original Hebrew versions, a process that he completed about 405.

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