id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2133 Medieval Latin - Wikipedia .html text/html 5623 631 59 English words like abstract, subject, communicate, matter, probable and their cognates in other European languages generally have the meanings given to them in medieval Latin.[3] For instance, rather than following the classical Latin practice of generally placing the verb at the end, medieval writers would often follow the conventions of their own native language instead. Thus the Latin of a theologian like St Thomas Aquinas or of an erudite clerical historian such as William of Tyre tends to avoid most of the characteristics described above, showing its period in vocabulary and spelling alone; the features listed are much more prominent in the language of lawyers (e.g. the 11th-century English Domesday Book), physicians, technical writers and secular chroniclers. Classical Latin verbs had at most two voices, active and passive, but Greek (the original language of the New Testament) had an additional "middle voice" (or reflexive voice). Medieval Latin literature[edit] Important medieval Latin authors[edit] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2133.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2133.txt