Latinity

English Etymology From en la Latīnitās, from en la Latīnus Latin. Noun ~ en uncountable countable The quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing; the Latin language, as an area of study or interest. en Mark Napier III Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms Edinburgh William Blackwood; London: Thomas Cadell 1834 116 https://archive.org/details/memoirsofjohnnap00napi/page/116/mode/1up The banns being published, the next difficulty was to find a bishop who would bless them. One bishop was found, says Buchanan with the severest point of his elegant Latinity, one, the Bishop of Orkney, who preferred the smiles of a court to the light of truth, while others declined the task, and pointed out the unhallowed nature of nuptials with him who had already two spouses alive, and had lately obtained himself to be repudiated by a third on the ground of his own adultery. “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. 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. en 2012 Barbara Newman Ailments of the Tongue London Review of Books 34 6 Girls might infiltrate the clubhouse but men alone remain the teachers and theorists of Latinity. en uncountable Latin character en uncountable Latin literature considered as a whole en countable A Latinism Synonyms en Latinhood en Latinness Translations essence of being Latin Albanian: sq lëtirësi French: fr latinité f German: de Latinität f Irish: ga Laidineacht f, ga Laidneachas m Italian: it latinità f Latin: la Latīnitās f Nahuatl: Classical Nahuatl: nci latin tlahtōllōtl, nci latin tlahtōliztli Polish: pl łacińskość f Portuguese: pt latinidade f Romanian: ro latinitate f Spanish: es latinidad f en 4-syllable words en Language