CLASSICAL LATIN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The language of educated people in ancient Rome

Example:

Latin is a language as dead as dead can be. It killed the ancient Romans--and now it's killing me

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("classical Latin" is a kind of...):

Latin (any dialect of the language of ancient Rome)

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