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The word 'vín' is a latinism that dates from the time Iceland wasn't colonized, OK.
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Normally I wouldn't think of rejecting e.g. the latinism vín, which came into the germanic languages long before Iceland was colonized.
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Only yesterday I added a beautiful latinism to my collection, when an old woman, in whose cottage
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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Even in our ashes live their wonted fires, and where is the scholar who does not turn with delight from his history or his sermon to criticise a copy of verses, to _savourer_ a fine latinism or dig his pen through a false quantity as if he were cutting down an enemy?
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862
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Neo-latinism as professed by most of the humanists of his time; its futility is now no longer questioned.] 10.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485
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Neo-latinism as professed by most of the humanists of his time; its futility is now no longer questioned.] 10.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485
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