Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The manner, style, character, etc., of Padua; specifically, the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian, who was born at Patavium, now Padua; hence, in general, the use of local or provincial words in writing or speaking.
Wiktionary
- n. The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity.
Etymologies
- Latin patavinitas, from Patavium (now Padua), where Livy was born: compare French patavinité. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Livy has been criticised on this account; his Latin is said to be tainted with patavinity.””
“Livy has been criticised on this account; his Latin is said to be tainted with patavinity. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘patavinity’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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JLaughWork's Words
sesquipedalian, perspicacity, fervid, onomatopoeia, eschatology, prognostication, pedagogue, expiation, integrity, metamorphosis, supercilious, xenophilia and 229 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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-ity City
enmity, moiety, nemiety, propinquity, levity, lenity, probity, concinnity, serendipity, perspicacity, perspicuity, acuity and 55 more...
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hobbyhorses
words that have recently fascinated me.
hobby horse (noun)
1. a stick with a horse's head, or a rocking horse, ridden by children.
2. a figure of a horse, attached at the w...idiolect, boustrophedon, patavinity, ensorceled, cumyxaphily, formicary, dorp, insouciance, watchword, infarction, bibliolatry, deipnosophist and 1 more...
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Local loci
sites, sights, points, pointers, dihybrid, alleles, lares, centrode, sightings, Selfish DNA, Shellfish DNA, Allele frequency and 30 more...
Tweets
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jmjarmstrong JM is constantly expanding his appreciation of patavinity because local words should be for local people. Apr 4, 2011