Neo-Latin

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Neo-Latin \Ne`o-Lat"in\, a. [Neo- + Latin.]
     Applied to the Romance languages, as being mostly of Latin
     origin.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  Neo-Latin
       n : Latin since the Renaissance; used for scientific
           nomenclature [syn: {New Latin}]