Vulgate

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A Latin translation of the Bible made by Saint Jerome and used by the Roman Catholic Church

noun
/ˈvʌlɡeɪt/

Literature

: Vulgata

In the Vulgate, the Gospel according to St. John begins (in scriptio continua):

Examples

Check the Vulgate for Job 11:17 and 2 Peter 1:19.

Blog text (2)
The biblical reference here is to a Lake Asan mentioned in the Vulgate in 1 Kings 30:30, which is 1 Samuel 30:30 in other texts.

Academic text (1992)
And even the Vulgate itself has gone through a number of revisions.

Blog text (15)
In the Catholic world, Jerome's Vulgate continued, until recently, to be the principal Bible.

Academic text (1994)
Jerome had read both texts, consulting Jubilees for exegetical purposes and including 4 Ezra in his Vulgate.

Academic text (2018)
As he promised, Foster plunged us, from the very first day, right into real Latin texts: Cicero, Petronius, and the Latin Vulgate Bible, which meant that learning grammar was never separated.

Academic text (1994)
The poet's choice of vocabulary confirms his reliance on Latin sources, whether the Vulgate or Arias Montano's Davidis regis, or both.

Academic text (2002)
The fifth-century Vulgate translation was the standard for a thousand years.
When Gutenberg invented the printing press, the Latin Vulgate Bible became the first book ever printed in 1455.
In the Catholic world, Jerome's Vulgate continued, until recently, to be the principal Bible.

Surface Forms

Vulgate singular

Vulgates plural

Etymology

Vulgate comes from the Latin word vulgus, meaning 'the common people', and from vulgare, meaning 'to make common'. So the Vulgate is the 'common' Latin Bible made for ordinary people and later became the standard text of the Church.