Neo-Latin

Neo-Latin (also known as New Latin and Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy during the Italian Renaissance of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and then across northern Europe after about 1500, as a key feature of the humanist movement. Through comparison with Latin of the Classical period, scholars from Petrarch onwards promoted a standard of Latin closer to that of the ancient Romans, especially in grammar, style, and spelling. The term Neo-Latin was however coined much later, probably in Germany in the late eighteenth century, as Neulatein, spreading to French and other languages in the nineteenth century.

Extends: Neo-Latin, [14th-century establishments in Europe](https://wikipedia.org.ai/14th-century establishments in Europe), [19th-century disestablishments in Europe](https://wikipedia.org.ai/19th-century disestablishments in Europe), [Forms of Latin](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Forms of Latin), [History of literature](https://wikipedia.org.ai/History of literature)

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