Vulgate Definition

vŭlgāt, -gĭt
noun
The vernacular, or common speech.
Webster's New World
A widely accepted text or version of a work.
American Heritage
A Latin version of the Bible prepared by St. Jerome in the 4th cent., authorized as the official biblical text of the Roman Catholic Church.
Webster's New World
pronoun

The Latin translation of the Bible (from Hebrew and Greek) made by Saint Jerome.

Wiktionary
adjective
Of or in the Vulgate.
Webster's New World
Commonly accepted; popular; specif., of or in the vernacular, or common speech.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Vulgate

Noun

Singular:
vulgate
Plural:
vulgates

Origin of Vulgate

  • Medieval Latin Vulgāta from Late Latin vulgāta (editiō) popular (edition) from Latin feminine past participle of vulgāre to make known to all from vulgus the common people

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin versio vulgata (“edition in vernacular language")

    From Wiktionary

Vulgate Sentence Examples

  • His great work was the Vulgate, but his achievements in other fields would have sufficed to distinguish him.

  • For the text of scripture he uses both the Latin versions, the Itala and the Vulgate, often comparing them together.

  • In 1546 the council of Trent adopted the canon of Augustine, declaring " He is also to be anathema who does not receive these entire books, with all their parts, as they have been accustomed to be read in the Catholic Church, and are found in the ancient editions of the Latin Vulgate, as sacred and canonical."

  • Thus the Apocrypha Proper constitutes the surplusage of the Vulgate or Bible of the Roman Church over the Hebrew Old Testament.

  • But this is only true with certain reservations; for the Latin Vulgate was revised by Jerome according to the Hebrew, and, where Hebrew originals were wanting, according to the Septuagint.

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