History of the Latin language

non-standard Latin variety spoken by the people of Ancient Rome

high-prestige form of the Latin language in the Roman Republic and Empire

form of Latin used in the Middle Ages

period of the Latin language

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Neo-Latin (also known as New Latin and Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy during the Italian Renaissance of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and then across northern Europe after about 1500, as a key feature of the humanist movement. Through comparison with Latin of the Classical period, scholars from Petrarch onwards promoted a standard of Latin closer to that of the ancient Romans, especially in grammar, style, and spelling. The term Neo-Latin was however coined much later, probably in Germany in the l

written Latin of late antiquity

ancestor of Latin and other Italic languages

form of the Latin language used since the 19th century

Latin as spoken and written in the Renaissance

aspect of history