Dictionary

vulgate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈvʌlɡeɪt/
• /ˈvʌlɡət/

Etymology

From Latin vulgātus, past participle of vulgō (“publish, make common, cheapen”).

Meanings

1. (archaic) Made common, published for common use.
2. (not-comparable, of a text, qualifier:especially the Bible) In or pertaining to the common version or edition.

Forms

Coordinates

vulgar

Synonyms

vulgarized

vulgate en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈvʌlɡeɪt/
• /ˈvʌlɡət/

Etymology

From Latin vulgātus, past participle of vulgō (“publish, make common, cheapen”).

Meanings

1. The language of a people, especially the commoners.
   • The linguistic and socio-historical evidence herein examined suggests that the development of Coptic occurred in Ptolemaic Egypt, not only as a spoken vulgate in the Delta, but as a script produced through […] 1988, Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Journal, page 96:
   • English sentences were often described in ways more appropriate to Latin than to the spoken vulgate (Lindemann 78-79). 2004, Cornelius Cosgrove, Nancy Barta-Smith, In Search of Eloquence, page 187:
   • Originally destined for settlements throughout India, these documents exhibit a wide range of rhetorical conventions and writing styles, combining in varying proportions the local idiom, the spoken vulgate, and the classical form of their writers' language. 2011, Abbas Amanat, Michael Ezekiel Gasper, Is There a Middle East?, page 153:
   • They might speak the local vulgate among themselves, and certainly among those they were trying to reach outside of the monastery, but read and spoke Latin for religious and official events. 1995, William A. Katz, Dahl's history of the book, page 89:
2. (of a text, qualifier:especially the Bible) A common version or edition.

Forms

Synonyms

vernacular · vulgar

vulgate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /vʌlˈɡeɪt/

Etymology

From Latin vulgātus, past participle of vulgō (“publish, make common, cheapen”).

Meanings

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

Forms

Relateds

vulgation