John Cowan wrote:

>
> Marco Cimarosti scripsit:
>
> > Neither it was spread by the Roman language.
>
> Weeellll, "lingua romana" is a minority usage these days, but certainly
> not unknown either in Classical times or in the present.
>
> Lewis & Short (the main anglophone Latin dictionary) says (s.v. _Romanus_):
>
> lingua Romana, i.e. Latin, Laurea Tull. poët. ap. Plin. 31,
> 2, 3, § 8; Tac. Agr. 21; Plin. Ep. 2, 10, 2; Vell. 2, 110:
> Romana lingua, Macr. S. 1 , praef. § 2; Lact. 3, 13, 10;
> Treb. Poll. Trig. Tyr. 28, 2; Aug. Ep. 167, 6: litterae Romanae
> (= litterae Latinae), Quint. 1, 10, 23 : sermo Romanus, id. 2,
> 14, 1 ; 6, 2, 8; 10, 1, 100; 123:

Has not the OLD assumed priority over L&S?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...