Latinism

English

Etymology

Latin +‎ -ism

Noun

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’

Coordinate terms

• (foreignisms) foreignism; Akkadianism / Akkadism, Americanism, Amharism, Anglicism, Arabism, Aramaism, Armenism, Australianism, Batavism, Belorussianism, Bengalism, Briticism, Bulgarism, Catalanism, Church Slavicism / Church Slavonicism / Slavonicism, Croatism, Czechism / Bohemianism, Gallicism / Frenchism, Germanism / Teutonism, Grecism / Hellenism, Hebraism, Hispanism / Hispanicism / Castilianism, Hungarianism / Magyarism, Indianism, Iranianism, Irishism, Italianism / Italicism, Japanism, Kazakhism, Latinism, Macedonianism, Mandaism, Moravianism, New Zealandism, Persianism, Polonism, Portuguesism, Russianism, Scotticism, Serbism, Serbo-Croatism, Sinicism, Slavism, Slovenism / Pannonianism, Sumerianism / Sumerism, Syriacism, Turkism, Ukrainism / Ukrainianism, Uzbekism, Yiddishism

Derived terms

• pseudo-Latinism

Translations

Latinism

• Breton: latinadur m
• Catalan: llatinisme (ca) m
• Czech: latinismus m
• Dutch: latinisme (nl) n
• Finnish: latinismi
• German: Latinismus (de) m
• Greek: λατινισμός (el) m (latinismós)
• Italian: latinismo (it) m
• Polish: latynizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: latinismo (pt) m
• Spanish: latinismo (es) m
• Welsh: Lladineb f

Anagrams

• limitans