Latinate

American  

[lat-n-eyt] / ˈlæt nˌeɪt /

adjective

1. of, like, pertaining to, or derived from Latin.

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Latinate British  

/ ˈlætɪˌneɪt /

adjective

1. (of writing, vocabulary, etc) imitative of or derived from Latin

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Etymology

Origin of Latinate

First recorded in 1900–05; Latin + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

The Latinate reference deliberately invokes the transformative 1891 encyclical, “Rerum Novarum,” from his predecessor and namesake, Pope Leo XIII, which oriented the church toward the challenges of industrial society and its consequences.

From The Wall Street Journal

Law is a dispute-resolution mechanism, not a series of spells: In the real world, no set of Latinate incantations can disappear millions of valid votes.

From Slate

But the Latinate words that the dance brings to mind are the ones that start with “circum,” or ”around.”

From New York Times

In the Huntington’s gardens, she helped revise labels for plants connected to Indigenous knowledge — on each, indicating their Indigenous, Spanish, English and scientific Latinate names.

From Los Angeles Times

Indexes — or indices, to use the Latinate form — are taken for granted today, but it took millennia for them to achieve their current lowly, neglected anonymous status.

From Washington Post