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CLASSICAL LATIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The language of educated people in ancient Rome
Example:
Latin is a language as dead as dead can be. It killed the ancient Romans--and now it's killing me
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("classical Latin" is a kind of...):
Latin (any dialect of the language of ancient Rome)