Vulgate
pronunciation
How to pronounce Vulgate in British English:
UK [ˈvʌlgeɪt]
How to pronounce Vulgate in American English:
US [ˈvʌlˌɡet, -ɡɪt]
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- Noun:
- the Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century; as revised in 1592 it was adopted as the official text for the Roman Catholic Church
Word Origin
- Vulgate (n.)
- Latin translation of the Bible, especially that completed in 405 by St. Jerome (c.340-420), c. 1600, from Medieval Latin Vulgata, from Late Latin vulgata "common, general, ordinary, popular" (in vulgata editio "popular edition"), from Latin vulgata, fem. past participle of vulgare "make common or public, spread among the multitude," from vulgus "the common people" (see vulgar). So called because the translations made the book accessible to the common people of ancient Rome.
Example
- 1. The present composite vulgate is basically the work of st.
- 2. In the greek bible and the vulgate job now stands before psalms and follows directly after the historical books .
- 3. But up to now , there are still some problems to be solved on component-based software reuse , such as lack of vulgate models and management tools of reusable components .
- 4. The vulgate version followed this division , but styled them " books of the kings . "
- 5. He pointed out the defects in the vulgate , and declared the donation of constantine a fable .