Latinolatry

English Etymology en :af Latino- -latry + 1 Pronunciation en ɒlətɹi 5 Noun - Excessive reverence for the Latin language and literature, especially in education. en 1888 The American Naturalist 487 https://books.google.com/books?id=F2TyAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA487 Grecolatry and Latinolatry are sometimes obstructive. The physician will have less use for a profound knowledge of the humanities than of humanity; the chemist or miner will doubtless find Greek and Latin of use, but much less than German or French and still less than an elementary acquaintance with matter. The future merchant may be glad to bandy classical allusions with his customers, but a knowledge acquired, in the schools, of the objects of his trade will save much cost and labor in those years when time and labor are of most account. en 1929 The Sewanee Review 174 https://books.google.com/books?id=TaI5AAAAMAAJ It is in the main a highly patriotic plea for a native American literature, truly native, not borrowed. In the service of originality, it deals hard blows at the then-prevailing Latinolatry, and its remarks on the advisability of discarding models and returning to nature sound like the first faint stirrings of romanticism in this country. en 2002 1928 Gustav Marius Bruce Luther as an Educator 295 https://books.google.com/books?id=QNhKAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA295 He Luther capitalized the best elements in Humanistic education, set them free from the tendency toward a narrow Latinolatry, the extreme of which was “Ciceronianism,” and the further tendency to create merely an intellectual aristocracy, and related them to the life of the people in general, utilizing them in the interest of the education of the masses. Translations French: fr latinolâtrie f en Europe Italy Education