Latinism

The first Wycliffeite version was no sooner completed than its many imperfections became manifest.

The desire to be faithful in the rendering of the exact words led the translators into Latinisms having their source in the Vulgate version, so that some parts can scarcely be called English at all.

There seems to have been little or no consideration of the idiomatic differences between the Latin and the English tongues.

Wycliffe's own part was less defective in this respect than that of Hereford, his co-worker, who was more painfully literal in his rendering than his master.

The first Wycliffeite version was no sooner completed than its many imperfections became manifest.

The desire to be faithful in the rendering of the exact words led the translators into Latinisms having their source in the Vulgate version, so that some parts can scarcely be called English at all.

There seems to have been little or no consideration of the idiomatic differences between the Latin and the English tongues.

Wycliffe's own part was less defective in this respect than that of Hereford, his co-worker, who was more painfully literal in his rendering than his master.

And then they come to a place called the skull, right? You know, which is again, I mean, I just...

I mean, I might be wildly wrong here on this, but in Greek, it's known as the place of the cranium, which to me, I think has a sort of Latinism to it, which makes me wonder whether the Romans themselves have named it that, right? This is the only place in the New Testament it appears.

And of course, we, you know, cranium, you know, we have the skull now in that sense.

But I mean, just so barbaric, you know, nobody, the skull, you know, skull indicates