Talk:vulgate
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Rfv etymology 1 "the vernacular language of a people". "German is the vulgate of Austria"... doesn't sound right to me. The OED has it as an archaic/obsolete adjective meaning "commonly used; rendered common, vulgarised", which we don't have, but no noun sense. Apart from the Vulgate Bible, searching "the vulgate" and "is the vulgate of" turns up some specialised usages where it means "the version rendered into a common language", which fits a substantive use of that adjective, but nothing that indicates the vernacular language itself. —Nizolan (talk) 01:27, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
- I've added four quotations. —Granger (talk · contribs) 17:25, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks Granger. Prompted by your citations I also just realised that there are separate entries at the OED, and the one I overlooked provides two other examples for this sense, so RFV withdrawn and entry expanded. —Nizolan (talk) 13:43, 15 May 2020 (UTC)