patavinity

English

Etymology

From Latin patavinitas, from Patavium (now Padua), where Livy was born. Compare French patavinité.

Noun

patavinity (usually uncountable, plural patavinities)

1. The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian.

See also

• Paduanism

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “patavinity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)