Latinist

American  

[lat-n-ist] / ˈlæt n ɪst /

noun

1. a specialist in Latin.

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Latinist British  

/ ˈlætɪnɪst /

noun

1. a person who studies or is proficient in Latin

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Etymology

Origin of Latinist

From the Medieval Latin word latīnista, dating back to 1530–40. See Latin, -ist

Example Sentences

Such is the horrific premise of “The Latinist,” a superb literary suspense novel that calls to mind an earlier such debut, Donna Tartt’s ‘The Secret History.”

From Washington Post

Another Latinist had dated the Italian poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in his youth before becoming a priest and had a habit of screaming profanities.

From New York Times

“He’s on record as saying that he’s not sure the discipline deserves a future,” Denis Feeney, a Latinist at Princeton, told me.

From New York Times

Known by the Swiss Guards as “the gas-station attendant” because of his blue work shirt and pants, Foster was occasionally controversial, always charming and not whom you’d expect to serve as the Vatican’s head Latinist.

From New York Times

She undergoes a posthumous rapprochement with her mother, who had been an avid Latinist in high school, but whose intellectual gifts had been lost to alcoholism.

From The New Yorker