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.
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

     “Well, well,” said the lawyer, when I had quite done, “this is a great epic, a great Odyssey of yours. You must tell it, sir, in a sound Latinity when your scholarship is riper; or in English if you please, though for my part I prefer the stronger tongue. […]

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome.

   • 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
• German: Latinität (de) f
• Irish: Laidineacht f, Laidneachas m
• Italian: latinità f

• Latin: Latīnitās f
• Polish: łacińskość (pl) f
• Portuguese: latinidade f
• Romanian: latinitate (ro) f
• Spanish: latinidad f