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Webster 1913 Edition
Latinity
La-tin′i-ty
,Noun.
[L.
latinitas
: cf. F. latinité
.] The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom.
“His ele[GREEK]ant Latinity.” Motley.
Webster 1828 Edition
Latinity
LATIN'ITY
,Noun.
Definition 2025
Latinity
Latinity
English
Noun
Latinity (countable and uncountable, plural Latinities)
- (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.
- 2012, Barbara Newman, ‘Ailments of the Tongue’, London Review of Books, vol. 34 no. 6:
- (uncountable) Latin character
- (uncountable) Latin literature considered as a whole
- (countable) A Latinism