Greco-Latin

alternative dated Græco-Latin · alternative Commonwealth Graeco-Latin

1. USDerived from or pertaining to the Ancient Greek and Latin languages.

   The German sense of Geist does not take its measure from the technical philosophical sense of the Greco-Latin spiritus.

   1999, Michael Baur, Daniel O. Dahlstrom, The Emergence of German Idealism, page 180

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   In 1781 they framed "Articles of Confederation,” and in 1789 the “Constitution of the United States of America," from which we have an Extract and Table, showing sixty-two per cent. Greco-Latin and thirty-eight Gotho-Germanic; whereas Ethelbert's Anglo-Saxon Code of A.D. 597, which is the oldest English writing, containse six per cent. Greco-Latin and ninety-four Gotho-Germanic; the code of Alfred the Great, A.D. 890, numbers six per cent. Greco-Latin and ninety-four Gotho-Germanic; and the Bill of Rights, 1688, counts sixty-three per cent. Greco-Latin, thirty-six Gotho-Germanic, and one per cent. Celtic.

   1878, John Adam Weisse, Origin, Progress and Destiny of the English Language and Literature, page 459

   The Greco-Latin coincidences are presumably due to the independent preservation of elements of the most ancient IE. vocabulary. They do not necessarily imply any intimate relationship between Greek and Latin leading to the postulation of a pre-historic 'Italo-Greek' unity.

   1988, Leonard Robert Palmer, The Latin Language, page 21

   The enrichment of the English vocabulary by Greco-Latin words was continuing, and the role of Greco-Latin vocabulary as the language of education was here to stay.

   2008, Timothy Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Rick M. Newton, Greek and Latin Roots: Keys to Building Vocabulary, page 149