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Latinities

Latinities is the plural of Latinity.

Meaning of Latinity

Noun

Latinity (countable and uncountable, plural Latinities)

  1. The quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing; the Latin language, as an area of study or interest.
    • The banns being published, the next difficulty was to find a bishop who would bless them. One bishop was found, says Buchanan with the severest point of his elegant Latinity, one, the Bishop of Orkney, who preferred the smiles of a court to the light of truth, while others declined the task, and...1834, Mark Napier, chapter III, in Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: Thomas...
  2. (uncountable) Latin character
  3. (uncountable) Latin literature considered as a whole
  4. (countable) A Latinism

Questions about Latinities

What is Latinities the plural of?
Latinities is the plural of Latinity.

Words near Latinities in the dictionary

  1. Latinisms
  2. Latinist
  3. Latinistic
  4. Latinistical
  5. Latinists
  6. Latinities
  7. Latinity
  8. latinization
  9. latinizations
  10. latinize
  11. latinized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Latinities (page history and authors); Latinity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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