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Webster 1913 Edition


Latinity

La-tin′i-ty

,
Noun.
[L.
latinitas
: cf. F.
latinité
.]
The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom.
“His ele[GREEK]ant Latinity.”
Motley.

Webster 1828 Edition


Latinity

LATIN'ITY

,
Noun.
Purity of the Latin style or idiom; the Latin tongue.

Definition 2024


Latinity

Latinity

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Noun

Latinity (countable and uncountable, plural Latinities)

  1. (countable) The quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing; the Latin language, as an area of study or interest.
    • 2012, Barbara Newman, ‘Ailments of the Tongue’, London Review of Books, vol. 34 no. 6:
      Girls might infiltrate the clubhouse but men alone remain the teachers and theorists of Latinity.
  2. (uncountable) Latin character
  3. (uncountable) Latin literature considered as a whole
  4. (countable) A Latinism

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