Sixto-Clementine

Meaning

Adjective

  • Of, pertaining to, designating the edition text of the Vulgate (1592, corrected in 1593 and 1598), correcting that of Pope Sixtus V (regnavit 1585–90), which was revised on the orders of Pope Clement VIII (r. 1592–1605).

Origin

  • From the Latin Sixtō-Clēmentīnus.

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