Latinity

English

Etymology

From Latin Latīnitās, from Latin Latīnus (“Latin”)

Noun

Latinity (countable and uncountable, plural Latinities)

1. (countable) The quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing; the Latin language, as an area of study or interest.
   • 2012, Barbara Newman, ‘Ailments of the Tongue’, London Review of Books, vol. 34 no. 6:

     Girls might infiltrate the clubhouse but men alone remain the teachers and theorists of Latinity.

2. (uncountable) Latin character
3. (uncountable) Latin literature considered as a whole
4. (countable) A Latinism

Synonyms

• Latinhood
• Latinness

Translations

essence of being Latin

• Classical Nahuatl: latin tlahtōllōtl, latin tlahtōliztli
• French: latinité (fr) f
• Italian: latinità f

• Latin: Latīnitās f
• Spanish: latinidad f