different between bible vs vulgate

English

Etymology

From Middle English bible, from Middle Latin biblia (“book”) (misinterpreted as a feminine from earlier Latin neuter plural biblia (“books”)), from Ancient Greek ?????? (biblía, “books”), plural of ??????? (biblíon, “small book”), originally a diminutive of ?????? (bíblos, “book”), from ?????? (búblos, “papyrus”) (from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material).

Old English used biblioþ?ce (from ??????????) and ?ewritu (> English writs) for "the Scriptures".

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?ba?b?l/
• Rhymes: -a?b?l

Noun

bible (plural bibles)

1. An exemplar of the Bible.
2. A comprehensive manual that describes something. (e.g., handyman’s bible).
   • 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine

     Computer Lib was written as a popular primer, but its most profound effect was on computer programmers, who needed little persuasion about the value of computers. Its tone – energetic, optimistic, inexhaustible, confused – matched theirs exactly. Having set out to appeal to the general public, Nelson managed to publish an insider's bible and highly intimate guide to hacker culture.

3. (nautical) Synonym of holystone: a piece of sandstone used for scouring wooden decks on ships.
4. (at certain US universities) A compilation of problems and solutions from previous years of a given course, used by some students to cheat on tests or assignments.
   • 1965, Matt Fichtenbaum and Dan Murphy, “The Institute Screw” in The Broadside of Boston, vol. III, No. 22:

5. Omasum, the third compartment of the stomach of ruminants

   Synonyms: psalterium, omasum, manyplies, fardel

Related terms

• biblical

Translations

Czech

Proper noun

bible f

1. Bible

Declension

Derived terms

• biblický
• biblista

Further reading

• bible in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• bible in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bibl/

Noun

bible f (plural bibles)

1. bible (comprehensive text)

Derived terms

• biblique
• bibliste

Further reading

• “bible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• Bible, bibel, bibile, byble, bybill, bibelle, bybulle, bibill

Etymology

From Old French bible, from Medieval Latin biblia, from biblia), from Ancient Greek ?????? (biblía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?b?l/

Proper noun

bible

1. The Bible (Christian holy book); a copy of the Bible.
2. (rare) The Koran (Muslim holy book).

Descendants

• English: Bible
• Scots: Bible

References

• “b?ble, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.

Noun

bible

1. Any book that is of extensive length.
2. A compendium, collection, or storehouse of books.

Descendants

• English: bible
• Scots: bible

References

• “b?ble, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.

English

Etymology

From Latin vulg?tus, past participle of vulg? (“publish, make common, cheapen”).

Pronunciation

• (adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /?v?l?e?t/, /?v?l??t/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /v?l??e?t/

Adjective

vulgate (comparative more vulgate, superlative most vulgate)

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

Noun

vulgate (plural vulgates)

1. The vernacular language of a people.
   • 1988, Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Journal, page 96:

     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 […]

   • 1995, William A. Katz, Dahl's history of the book, page 89:

     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.

   • 2004, Cornelius Cosgrove and Nancy Barta-Smith, In Search of Eloquence, page 187:

     English sentences were often described in ways more appropriate to Latin than to the spoken vulgate (Lindemann 78-79).

   • 2011, Abbas Amanat and Michael Ezekiel Gasper, Is There a Middle East?, page 153:

     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.

2. (of a text, especially the Bible) A common version or edition.

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.

Related terms

• vulgation

References

• “vulgate”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

French

Noun

vulgate f (plural vulgates)

1. Common and widespread popular saying

Further reading

• “vulgate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

vulgate f

1. plural of vulgata

Latin

Verb

vulg?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of vulg?

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