NEO-LATIN
NEO-LATIN, also New Latin. A variety of LATIN current during and after the Renaissance, especially in academic and scientific discourse. One of its features is a stratum of GREEK associated with scholarly and highly technical usage. See BISOCIATION, CLASSICAL LANGUAGE.
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