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latin-american |
latinate |
latinesce |
latinian language |
latinise |
latinism
| latinist
| latinistic
| latinitaster
| latinity
| latinization
latinism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun latinism has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
latinism, n. [Cf. F. latinisme.].
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. [1913 Webster]
" The term is also sometimes used by Biblical scholars to designate a Latin word in Greek letters, or the Latin sense of a Greek word in the Greek Testament."
[1913 Webster]
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