Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The manner in which Latin is used in speaking or writing.
- noun Latin quality or character.
- noun A Latinism.
- noun Latin literature.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition of being a Roman citizen.
- noun Use of the Latin language; method of speaking or writing Latin; Latin style or idiom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable
Latin character - noun uncountable Latin
literature considered as a whole - noun countable The quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing
- noun countable A
Latinism
Etymologies
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Examples
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"The first called Latinity or Latin, the second Italian right."
The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644
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In the examination of a specific phrase — the cwæð Orosius (“Orosius said”) — I will position the time of Latinity and the representation of Orosius as indicators of a connection being made across times, as it were.
Dissertation Fragments III: The Prospectus Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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Lackluster Cuban sandwiches and nacho bowls are a foregone failure if meant to appeal to customers with more precise ideas of Latinity.
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In the examination of a specific phrase — the cwæð Orosius (“Orosius said”) — I will position the time of Latinity and the representation of Orosius as indicators of a connection being made across times, as it were.
Archive 2007-12-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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Court, faculty, and audience, in set terms, and said a few words upon a text of the civil law, to show his Latinity and jurisprudence.
Redgauntlet 2008
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REI VENDITAE, and is a very pretty piece of Latinity. —
Redgauntlet 2008
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We know that in the dark ages it was customary to write ecclesiastical works on the manuscripts containing the best authors of Latinity.
Satyricon 2007
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In our own time, two extraordinary scholarly enterprises have renewed the vigor of Latinity: the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum (CTC) and the I Tatti Renaissance Library (ITRL), the first led by Professor Virginia Brown of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, the second by Professor James Hankins of Harvard University.
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In our own time, two extraordinary scholarly enterprises have renewed the vigor of Latinity: the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum (CTC) and the I Tatti Renaissance Library (ITRL), the first led by Professor Virginia Brown of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, the second by Professor James Hankins of Harvard University.
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The Latinity was attacked and exception taken to Silver Age prose in which was found a French police regulation which required newly arrived travellers to register their names in the book of a police officer of an Italian village of the first century.
Satyricon 2007
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