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Neo-Latin

Neo-Latin noun: new Latin.

Noun

Neo-Latin (uncountable)

  1. New Latin

Adjective (1)

Neo-Latin (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Of or relating to the Romance languages.

Adjective (2) capitalized: neo-Latin

neo-Latin (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Neo-Latin language.

Forms of Neo-Latin

alternative formNeo Latin

Origin of Neo-Latin

From neo- + Latin.

Questions about Neo-Latin

What does Neo-Latin mean?
Neo-Latin means new Latin.
What part of speech is Neo-Latin?
Neo-Latin can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near Neo-Latin in the dictionary

  1. neo-Kraepelinians
  2. neo-Lamarckian
  3. Neo-Lamarckianism
  4. neo-Lamarckians
  5. Neo-Lamarckism
  6. Neo-Latin
  7. neo-Leninism
  8. neo-liberal
  9. neo-liberals
  10. neo-libertarian Falangism
  11. neo-Luddism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Neo-Latin (page history and authors); neo-Latin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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