How To Use Low Latin In A Sentence
- The word commendam is the accusative of the Low Latin noun commenda, "trust", or "custody", which is derived from the verb commendare (to give in trust). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
- Dr. Johnson, however, strangely enough deduces the word bumpkin from bump; but what if it should prove to be a corruption of bumbard, or bombard: in low Latin, bombardus, a great gun, and from thence applied to a large flagon, or full glass. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
- The Low Latin equivalent of the Arabic _tubb [= a] q_ "styptic," is _bitumen_, whence The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
- From the Gr. or is the Lat. stibium; while the Low Latin "antimonium" and the Span. Arabian nights. English
- ‘plaudit’; and the low Latin ‘mummia’ (Webster) became ‘mummy’. English Past and Present
- The name marmot comes from French marmotte, from Old French marmotan, marmontaine, from Old Franco-Provençal, from Low Latin mures montani "mountain mouse", from Latin mures monti, from Classical Latin mures alpini "Alps mouse". Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective
