"New" Latin Words

Feles in silva · Post by **Feles in silva** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 6:37 pm

I read somewhere that the Vatican, in modern times, created new words in an effort to update the Latin language.

I was wondering what this dictionary is called and whether or not it has met with widespread acceptance or not?

(I apologise in advance if this topic has been covered, but my search for it didn't turn up anything.)

Dingbats · Post by **Dingbats** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 6:47 pm

From BBC News:

But at a cost of 100 ($116) euros a copy, the Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis is unlikely to become a "liber maxime divenditus" - or best-seller.

Not available for free.

Mulciber · Post by **Mulciber** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 6:50 pm

The "Lexicon recentis Latinitatis" is a dictionary of neologisms: it contains over 15,000 words. Experts from all over the world have contributed to this work.

A (Latin-Italian) selection is at:

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/insti ... on_it.html