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Old Latin

noun

  1. the Latin language in use from the earliest inscriptions to c100 b.c. : OL, OL., O.L.


Old Latin

noun

  1. the Latin language before the classical period, up to about 100 bc


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Old Latin1

First recorded in 1885–90

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Example Sentences

Indeed, the old Latin communities, with the exception of Tibur and Prneste, had sunk into insignificance.

And then he found that she knew several of the old Latin hymns by heart, as they had been favorites of the English clergyman.

The war had made a profound impression upon him; his old Latin blood had revolted at this return to barbarity.

Yet the sermon, after all, in the old Latin word sermo is only a discourse, and I am going to make mine as brief as possible.

Lucilia here speaks in the tone of the old Latin comedies (Plautus, Terence).

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