Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An idiom, structure, or word derived from or suggestive of Latin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Latin idiom; a mode of expression, peculiar to the Latin language; use of Latin forms or derivatives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model.
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- noun Any
word orphrase borrowed fromLatin , or suggestive of Latin
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a word or phrase borrowed from Latin
Etymologies
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Examples
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But my favorite Latinism, which is actually quite useful.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Latin Phrases Law Students Should Know, But Likely Don’t: 2007
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But my favorite Latinism, which is actually quite useful.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Latin Phrases Law Students Should Know, But Likely Don’t: 2007
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If the Board of Education wants its teachers to instruct adolescents about HIV using Latinism of the academy, excluding vulgarism of the street, it should tell them so, plainly.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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If the Board of Education wants its teachers to instruct adolescents about HIV using Latinism of the academy, excluding vulgarism of the street, it should tell them so, plainly.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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What Latinism did, however, was to teach the appreciation of the dignity of time, the beauty of the passing years, and their enriching effect on things and men.
White Ashes Alden Charles Noble
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Latinism was a flavor of the soul, and the modern soul rarely, if ever, assumes that flavor.
White Ashes Alden Charles Noble
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Extra-vagant certainly may be construed out of bounds; we need no ghost with a mouthful of Syntax to tell us that; but Shakspeare had too much taste to adopt such an absurd Latinism.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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‘The founded world’ is indeed a pleasing Latinism, and congregations bred on such stuff should not suffer from flabbiness of thought.
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Spain is Latin and its Latinism is expressed in the churches, but it is a productive country and it will be fine.
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Among the medieval Greek theologians the most famous are the ninth-century Photius, well-known for his anti-Latinism; Michael
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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