Vulgate

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In 410 the monk Jerome produced a version of the Christian Bible in Latin, the Vulgate, which was to be the main edition in Europe until the sixteenth century.

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In his version, the Vulgate, Jerome translated Keren, the Hebrew word for "ray, horn" as "cornuta," Latin for "horns."

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Many Catholic Scriptural exegetes now use Protestant spellings of Old Testament names rather than ones derived from the Vulgate.

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The encyclical encouraged new biblical research, literary criticism, and new translations from the original languages rather than from the sacrosanct Vulgate, the 5th century Latin translation by St. Jerome.

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Magnificat, mag-nif′i-kat, n. the song of the Virgin Mary, Luke, i. 46-55, beginning in the Vulgate with this word.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various