different between greek vs vulgate

English

Etymology

Probably from Greek (“unintelligible speech or text”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Noun

greek (plural greeks)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Greek (“nonsense writing or talk; gibberish”).
2. Alternative letter-case form of Greek (“anal sex”).

Verb

greek (third-person singular simple present greeks, present participle greeking, simple past and past participle greeked)

1. (transitive, computing) To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.
2. (transitive, computing) To fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form can be focused on instead of content.

Derived terms

• greeking (noun)

Related terms

• it's all Greek to me

Anagrams

• Gerke

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