Latinly

Latinly adverb: in the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin.

Adverb

Latinly (not comparable)

In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin.
- You ſhall hardly finde a man amongſt them, which cannot make a shift to expresse himself in that language; nor one amongst a hundred that can do it Latinly1656, John Heylyn, A survey of the estate of France
- Among them they have developed a repertoire of apparently endless variety, touching nearly every facet of the Spanish character, from the naively peasant to the Latinly sophisticated.1940, The American Dancer, page 42

There England’s enemies are the pope and his priestly minions or the French, all of whom write or speak Latinly.2010, Grace Tiffany, “Being English Through Speaking English: Shakespeare and Early Modern Anti-Gallicism”, in Beatrice Batson, editor...
With “re” being defined, loosely, linguistically, Latinly, as “again,” and “turn” as, probably, “back.” So, “again back.”2013 January 12, Mike Bell, “When things we used to love boomerang back”, in Calgary Herald, page D1:
Brann takes the real in a (Latinly) literal sense, as meaning possessing ‘thinghood,’ “and material thinghood at that” (387).2017, Dennis Sepper, “Foreword”, in Eva T. H. Brann, The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance, 25th anniversary edition, Rowman &...

From Latin + -ly.

What does Latinly mean?: Latinly means in the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin.
How do you use Latinly in a sentence?: There England’s enemies are the pope and his priestly minions or the French, all of whom write or speak Latinly.
What part of speech is Latinly?: Latinly is an adverb.

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