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Latinisms

Latinisms is the plural of Latinism.

Meaning of Latinism

Noun

Latinism (plural Latinisms)

  1. (rhetoric) Any word or phrase borrowed from Latin, or suggestive of Latin.
    • [discussing numquam in the Old French portion of the Oaths of Strasbourg] a Latinizing spelling, maybe a pure Latinism, not surviving in modern French (but cf. Old French onques < umquam ‘ever’). Note the double negative, literally ‘will never make no pact’2010, Ti Alkire, Carol Rosen, Romance Languages: a historical introduction page 325

Questions about Latinisms

What is Latinisms the plural of?
Latinisms is the plural of Latinism.

Words near Latinisms in the dictionary

  1. Latinise
  2. Latinised
  3. Latinises
  4. Latinising
  5. Latinism
  6. Latinisms
  7. Latinist
  8. Latinistic
  9. Latinistical
  10. Latinists
  11. Latinities

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