Old Latin

Speech parts

1. Old Latin - Noun

2. Old Latin - Proper noun

Meaning

the oldest recorded Latin (dating back at early as the 6th century B.C.)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Early Latin Archaic Latin Classical Latin Vulgar Latin early roman dialect early roman idiom early roman language early roman speech early roman tongue pre-classical latin roman latin traditional latin ancient latin early classical latin early roman argot
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Hypernyms

latin

Examples

Alternate scripts Occasionally, Latin has been written in other scripts: * The disputed Praeneste fibula is a 7th-century BC pin with an Old Latin inscription written using the Etruscan script. Source: Internet

English and Latin do exhibit a regular correspondence of t- : d- (where the notation "A : B" means "A corresponds to B"); for example, In Latin, represents /k/ ; dingua is an Old Latin form of the word later attested as lingua. Source: Internet

History of cases Old Latin had essentially two patterns of endings. Source: Internet

In many respects it was merely a revision of the Old Latin. Source: Internet

In Old Latin inscriptions, it is often omitted, as in viro for virom (Classical virum). Source: Internet

Old Latin had more diphthongs, but most of them changed into long vowels in Classical Latin. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Old Lady of Threadneedle Street old lag old lang syne old latin bible Old Leake old lech