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Can the use of articles be traced back to Late/Vulgar Latin?
Isolated usages of unus as an indefinite article have been identified in Old and Classical Latin, but generally speaking unus and ille did not establish themselves as articles until Late and early Medieval … Ille and unus in Late Latin
The Peregrinatio, dated to 380 or so, is often seen as one of the earliest examples of a text extensively using ille and unus as articles. …
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Why is "ille" used in Winnie ille Pu and Hobbitus Ille?
I learned early on that Latin has no articles. So why is it, then, that Winnie the Pooh and The Hobbit are translated Winnie ille Pu and Hobbitus Ille? …
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Why is "ille" used in Winnie ille Pu and Hobbitus Ille?
It's true that in Classical Latin, ille is a demonstrative pronoun (corresponding to that), not an article; indeed, articles as we know them in English do not exist in Classical Latin. … been the case with a writer of Classical Latin, "all those mountains."3
By the 6th century, this usage was apparently common: Gregory of Tours used ille as a definite article "almost as freely" as the articles …
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