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Modern Latin is the form of the Latin language that was developed in the Western world after the Middle Ages.

Latin was used extensively throughout Europe following the fall of the Western Roman Empire; medieval Latin is the forms of Latin used between the fall of (classical) Rome and the end of the medieval era. The modern form developed for scientific and other, often technical, purposes, during and after the Renaissance. Modern Latin can be contrasted with ecclesiastical or Church Latin which has been employed by the Roman Catholic Church from the time of the Roman empire to today, varying in its role in the life of the Church over history.