Category:Latin terms by usage
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Latin terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.
- Category:Latin archaic terms: Latin terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Latin autological terms: Latin terms that possess the property they themselves describe.
- Category:Latin childish terms: Latin terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
- Category:Latin colloquialisms: Latin terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
- Category:Latin dated terms: Latin terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
- Category:Latin derogatory terms: Latin terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
- Category:Latin dialectal terms: Latin terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
- Category:Latin endearing terms: Latin terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
- Category:Latin hapax legomena: Latin terms that are attested only once in the entire corpus.
- Category:Latin higher register terms: Latin terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
- Category:Latin historical terms: Latin terms that refer to obsolete things or concepts.
- Category:Latin humorous terms: Latin terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
- Category:Latin informal terms: Latin terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
- Category:Latin nonstandard terms: Latin terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
- Category:Latin poetic terms: Latin terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
- Category:Latin proscribed terms: Latin terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
- Category:Latin rare terms: Latin terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
- Category:Latin rustic terms: Latin terms whose use is typically restricted rural speech.
- Category:Latin short forms: Latin terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
- Category:Latin slang: Latin colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
- Category:Latin technical terms: Latin terms that are usually or exclusively used in technical/scientific writing.
- Category:Latin terms with archaic senses: Latin terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Latin terms with historical senses: Latin terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
- Category:Latin terms with obsolete senses: Latin terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Latin terms with rare senses: Latin rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
- Category:Latin terms with transferred senses: Latin terms with transferred senses.
- Category:Latin terms with uncertain meaning: Latin terms whose meaning is unknown or disputed.
- Category:Latin terms with uncommon senses: Latin uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
- Category:Latin uncommon terms: Latin uncommonly used terms.
- Category:Latin vulgarities: Latin terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
Subcategories
This category has the following 29 subcategories, out of 29 total.
A
- Latin autological terms (0 c, 4 e)
C
- Latin childish terms (0 c, 3 e)
- Latin colloquialisms (0 c, 18 e)
D
- Latin dated terms (0 c, 1 e)
- Latin derogatory terms (0 c, 53 e)
- Latin dialectal terms (0 c, 1 e)
E
- Latin endearing terms (0 c, 23 e)
H
- Latin hapax legomena (0 c, 168 e)
- Latin historical terms (0 c, 1 e)
- Latin humorous terms (0 c, 28 e)
I
N
P
- Latin poetic terms (0 c, 290 e)
- Latin proscribed terms (0 c, 58 e)
R
- Latin rare terms (0 c, 34 e)
- Latin rustic terms (0 c, 1 e)
S
- Latin short forms (0 c, 8 e)
- Latin slang (0 c, 13 e)
T
- Latin technical terms (0 c, 1 e)
- Latin terms with archaic senses (0 c, 64 e)
- Latin terms with historical senses (0 c, 184 e)
- Latin terms with obsolete senses (0 c, 10 e)
- Latin terms with uncertain meaning (0 c, 115 e)
- Latin terms with uncommon senses (0 c, 13 e)
U
- Latin uncommon terms (0 c, 10 e)
V
- Latin vulgarities (0 c, 47 e)