vulgate

See also: Vulgate

English

Etymology 1

From Latin vulgatus

Noun

vulgate (plural vulgates)

  1. The vernacular language of a people.

Etymology 2

From Latin vulgo through past participle vulgatus

Verb

vulgate (third-person singular simple present vulgates, present participle vulgating, simple past and past participle vulgated)

  1. To publish, spread, promulgate to the people.
    • 1844, The Quarterly Review‎, volume 73:
      Ordinary and vulgated sources will usually give all that is needed for a broad outline
    • 1844, Colburn's United Service Magazine‎, volume 1:
      we have seen this in the way in which the affair of Capri has been everywhere vulgated, amid endless perversion and distortion
    • 1864, Sir Francis Palgrave, The History of Normandy and of England Till 1101‎, volume 3:
      Amongst the traditional vulgated anecdotes floating about the world

French

Noun

vulgate f (plural vulgates)

  1. Common and widespread popular saying

Further reading

Italian

Noun

vulgate f

  1. plural of vulgata

Latin

Verb

vulgāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of vulgō

References

  • vulgate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vulgate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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