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Latinity

Latinity noun: the quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing; the Latin language, as an area of study or interest.

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...
    • “Well, well,” said the lawyer, when I had quite done, “this is a great epic, a great Odyssey of yours. You must tell it, sir, in a sound Latinity when your scholarship is riper; or in English if you please, though for my part I prefer the stronger tongue. […]1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC
  2. (uncountable) Latin character
  3. (uncountable) Latin literature considered as a whole
  4. (countable) A Latinism

Synonyms of Latinity

Forms of Latinity

pluralLatinities

Origin of Latinity

From Latin Latīnitās, from Latin Latīnus (“Latin”).

Questions about Latinity

What does Latinity mean?
Latinity means the quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing; the Latin language, as an area of study or interest.
What part of speech is Latinity?
Latinity is a noun.
What is the plural of Latinity?
The plural of Latinity is Latinities.

Words near Latinity in the dictionary

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

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