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Vulgar Latin, also known as Popular or Colloquial Latin, is the range of non-formal registers of Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onward. Vulgar...

in Classical Latin prose, they were frequently varied. The strongest surviving evidence suggests that the word order of colloquial Latin was mostly Subject-Object-Verb...

By the late Roman Republic, Old Latin had evolved into standardized Classical Latin. Vulgar Latin was the colloquial register with less prestigious variations...

Johnson. French (as Old French) emerged as a Gallo-Romance language from Colloquial Latin during late antiquity. The written language is known from at least...

The colloquial "caught red-handed" and "caught rapid" are English equivalents. Aside from the legal meaning, the Latin term is often used colloquially as...

major centres for finds of Latin defixiones. Most of the inscriptions are in colloquial Latin, and specifically in the Vulgar Latin of the Romano-British population...

The Latin Church (Latin: Ecclesia Latina) is the largest autonomous (sui iuris) particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute...

mid-15th century as a derivative of the verb enclaver (1283), from the colloquial Latin inclavare (to close with a key). Originally, it was a term of property...

Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet...

Latin phrases. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases. This list is a combination of the twenty page-by-page "List of Latin...

Martyr". The letters he sent while in exile are all written in the colloquial Latin of the period instead of the classical style used by the educated such...

on the history of the late Roman Republic and preserve features of colloquial Latin not always in evidence in his speeches and treatises. The letters of...

Singlish (a portmanteau of Singapore and English), formally known as Colloquial Singaporean English, is an English-based creole language originating in...

Old Latin, also known as Early, Archaic or Priscan Latin (Classical Latin: prīsca Latīnitās, lit. 'ancient Latinity'), was the Latin language in the period...

area in northern Gaul started adopting the common Latin of the local population. This Colloquial Latin language acquired the name of the people who came...

conversation, and stories that have become invaluable evidence of colloquial Latin. In the realism of Trimalchio's dinner party, we are provided with...

modern Italian name evolved in the sub-dialects that emerged from Colloquial Latin in northern Italy. The modern Albanian name evolved independently from...

in a protasis referring to the future, sometimes, as in English, in colloquial Latin a present tense is used: sī illum relinquō, eius vītae timeō (Terence)...

usually pronounced as a simple sound in colloquial (and even some formal) speech in both languages. In Late Latin a prosthetic vowel /i/ (lowered to /e/...

Americans. Norteamericano and norteamericana are also common. In Latin American Spanish colloquial speech, Americans may be referred to as gringos (likely originating...