Latinism

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From Latin +‎ -ism.

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Latinism (plural Latinisms)

  1. Any word or phrase borrowed from Latin, or suggestive of Latin.
    • 2010, Ti Alkire, Carol Rosen, Romance Languages: a historical introduction page 325:
      [discussing numquam in the Old French portion of the Oaths of Strasbourg] a Latinizing spelling, maybe a pure Latinism, not surviving in modern French (but cf. Old French onques < umquam ‘ever’). Note the double negative, literally ‘will never make no pact’

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