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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An idiom, structure, or word derived from or suggestive of Latin.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Latin idiom; a mode of expression, peculiar to the Latin language; use of Latin forms or derivatives.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any word or phrase borrowed from Latin, or suggestive of Latin

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a word or phrase borrowed from Latin

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Latin +‎ -ism

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