Latinist
Latinist noun: a scholar who studies the Latin language.
Noun
Latinist (plural Latinists)
- A scholar who studies the Latin language.
- As the best plan will be to allow it to speak for itself, I here give the black-letter fac-simile, together with the original Latin without the contractions, from which it will be seen that the writer was a fair mediæval Latinist.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
Forms of Latinist
| plural | Latinists |
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Origin of Latinist
From Latin + -ist.
Questions about Latinist
- What does Latinist mean?
- Latinist means a scholar who studies the Latin language.
- What part of speech is Latinist?
- Latinist is a noun.
- What is the plural of Latinist?
- The plural of Latinist is Latinists.
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