modern Latinn.adj.

1677 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 12 852 The Spanish Potado requires diligent culture, much Sun, and a light and pregnant Garden-Soyl. In the modern Latin the [read they] are called Glandes Malacenses, being brought into Spain from Volez Malaga, a Province in America.

1781 S. Johnson Addison in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets V. 8 Nothing is better known of Boileau than that he had an injudicious and peevish contempt of modern Latin.

a1831 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 84/1 The Latin que, used only enclitically indeed in modern Latin.

1934 Bot. Gaz. 96 145 I have taken the name Oniscus in its restricted sense as used in modern Latin by zoölogists, rather than from the Greek.

1939 F. O. Holmes Handbk. Phytopathogenic Viruses 112 Black-currant Reversion-disease Virus. Acrogenus ribis. Specific name from modern Latin ribes n., currant.

2000 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Aug. c11 The word ‘utopia’ is considered Modern Latin with origins in Greek.

1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. xiii. 565 It is my judgment that as out of the Vulgar Latin and the Modern Latin Versions, one entire one might be made in that Language that should be generally used in Quotations among the Orthodox Learned.

1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. Emend. sig. k4 The Latin, which is also a common manuscript, was printed so early as the year 1470. It has often appeared in French. A modern Latin version was published at Paris in 1577.

1852 H. Townsend Hist. Eng. 35 (note) Feudal, from the modern Latin word feodum or feud.

1882 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 9 59 The third part is an index in which the modern Latin names of the plants are given in alphabetical order, followed by the various English ones.

1935 Amer. Midland Naturalist 16 965 The bibliography for the sternum, for example, includes forty-three titles. Modern Latin, English and French terms are given for the parts.

1975 Newsweek (Nexis) 18 Aug. 67 a This fall the University of Saarbrucken will begin its own modern-Latin course.