Meaning of dog Latin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A phrase or jargon that imitates Latin, often by translating English words (or those of other languages) into Latin by conjugating or declining them.
2. Alternative letter-case form of dog Latin.
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3. Poor-quality or erroneous Latin.

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Examples

“Now that walking plants were established facts, the press⟳ lost its former tepidity and bathed them in publicity. So a name⟳ had to be found for them. Already there were botanists wallowing, after their custom, in polysyllabic dog-Latin and Greek to produce⟳ variants on ambulans and pseudopodia, but what the newspapers and the public wanted was something easy on the tongue and not too heavy on the headlines for general use⟳.”

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