Latinity

English

Etymology

From Latin Latīnitās, from Latin Latīnus (Latin)

Noun

Latinity (countable and uncountable, plural Latinities)

  1. (countable) The quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing; the Latin language, as an area of study or interest.
    • 2012, Barbara Newman, ‘Ailments of the Tongue’, London Review of Books, vol. 34 no. 6:
      Girls might infiltrate the clubhouse but men alone remain the teachers and theorists of Latinity.
  2. (uncountable) Latin character
  3. (uncountable) Latin literature considered as a whole
  4. (countable) A Latinism

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