Vulgate

Meanings

1. 1
   name

   the Latin version of the Bible chiefly prepared by Saint Jerome and adopted as the Catholic Church's standard Latin text

   The reformers compared the Vulgate with Greek and Hebrew manuscripts.

2. 2
   noun

   a commonly accepted or widely circulated version of a text, account, or belief

   The editor challenged the familiar vulgate of the story by consulting earlier manuscripts.

3. 3
   adj

   common, generally received, or intended for ordinary use

   The scholar distinguished the vulgate account from the less familiar archival record.

From Latin vulgata editio ('edition made common'), using the feminine past participle of vulgare ('to make public or common'), from vulgus ('the common people'). The title became associated especially with Jerome's Latin Bible and later broadened to any received version.

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