'''Renaissance Latin''' is a name given to the Latin written during the European [[Renaissance]] in the 14th-16th centuries, particularly distinguished by the distinctive Latin style developed by [[Renaissance humanism|the humanist movement]].
''[[Ad fontes]]'' was the general cry of the humanists, and as such their Latin style sought to purge Latin of the [[medieval Latin]] vocabulary and stylistic accretions that it had acquired in the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire.