Vulgate

Definitions

1. A particular Latin translation of the Bible made by Saint Jerome in the late 4th century CE.
2. The language of a people, especially the commoners.
3. A common version or edition.

Equivalents

Examples

“The linguistic and socio-historical evidence herein examined suggests that the development of Coptic occurred in Ptolemaic Egypt, not only as a spoken vulgate in the Delta, but as a script produced through […]”

“They might speak⟳ the local vulgate among themselves, and certainly among those they were trying to reach⟳ outside of the monastery, but read⟳ and spoke Latin for religious and official events.”

“English sentences were often described in ways more appropriate to Latin than to the spoken vulgate (Lindemann 78-79).”

“Originally destined for settlements throughout India, these documents exhibit a wide range of rhetorical conventions and writing styles, combining in varying proportions the local idiom, the spoken vulgate, and the classical form⟳ of their writers' language.”

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