Latinity

American  

[luh-tin-i-tee] / ləˈtɪn ɪ ti /

noun

1. knowledge or use of the Latin language.

   He bemoaned the lack of Latinity among today's scholars.

2. Latin style or idiom.

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Latinity British  

/ ləˈtɪnɪtɪ /

noun

1. facility in the use of Latin

2. Latin style, esp in literature

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Etymology

Origin of Latinity

First recorded in 1610–20, Latinity is from the Latin word latīnitās Latin style. See Latin, -ity

Example Sentences

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Latinity

"A union between European and South American nations based on Latinity would be primarily sentimental because Latinity is primarily sentimental."

From Time Magazine Archive

The old high German era, Frank, Carlovingian, of the German Latinity of the bards.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various

He has been the personal chum of everyone that ever read Latinity.

From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson

Cicero, in speaking of the age of Laelius as that of the purest Latinity, does not allow this merit to Pacuvius and to the comic poet Caecilius.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar

Dobell's mouth was ever full of very pretty Latinity, for the most part Virgilian.

From My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. by Various