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Webster 1913 Edition


Latinism

Lat′in-ism

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Noun.
[Cf. F.
latinisme
.]
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.
☞ The term is also sometimes used by Biblical scholars to designate a Latin word in Greek letters, or the Latin sense of a Greek word in the Greek Testament.

Webster 1828 Edition


Latinism

LAT'INISM

,
Noun.
A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to the Latins.

Definition 2024


Latinism

Latinism

English

Noun

Latinism (plural Latinisms)

  1. Any word or phrase borrowed from Latin, or suggestive of Latin

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