Latinly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
Latinly (not comparable)
- In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin.
- 1656, John Heylyn, A survey of the estate of France:
- You ſhall hardly finde a man amongſt them, which cannot make a shift to expresse himself in that language; nor one amongst a hundred that can do it Latinly
- 1940, The American Dancer, page 42:
- Among them they have developed a repertoire of apparently endless variety, touching nearly every facet of the Spanish character, from the naively peasant to the Latinly sophisticated.
- 2010, Grace Tiffany, “Being English Through Speaking English: Shakespeare and Early Modern Anti-Gallicism”, in Beatrice Batson, editor, Word and Rite: The Bible and Ceremony in Selected Shakespearean Works, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 35:
- There England’s enemies are the pope and his priestly minions or the French, all of whom write or speak Latinly.
- 2013 January 12, Mike Bell, “When things we used to love boomerang back”, in Calgary Herald, page D1:
- Return. Re-turn. With “re” being defined, loosely, linguistically, Latinly, as “again,” and “turn” as, probably, “back.” So, “again back.”
- 2017, Dennis Sepper, “Foreword”, in Eva T. H. Brann, The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance, 25th anniversary edition, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page xxiv:
- Brann takes the real in a (Latinly) literal sense, as meaning possessing ‘thinghood,’ “and material thinghood at that” (387).
References[edit]
- “Latinly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.