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Latinism

[lat-n-iz-uhm]

noun

  1. a mode of expression derived from or imitative of Latin.



Latinism

/ ˈlætɪˌnɪzəm /

noun

  1. a word, idiom, or phrase borrowed from Latin

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Other Word Forms

  • anti-Latinism noun
  • pro-Latinism noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Latinism1

From the Medieval Latin word latīnismus, dating back to 1560–70. See Latin, -ism
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Example Sentences

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Plants and animals already had names in indigenous languages, and Linnaeus, in a show of imperialism, renamed them with his Latinisms.

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His style, modelled on that of Thucydides and unreservedly praised by Photius, is on the whole pure, though somewhat rhetorical and showing a fondness for Latinisms.

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Only in Africa did “Latinism” fail to take root permanently.

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This latter critic published his animadversions on the pedantic writings of Hamon L’Estrange, who had opened on us a floodgate of Latinisms.

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All these archaisms, neologisms, Latinisms, compound words, and dialectic and technical expressions, Malherbe set about to eradicate from the French language.

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