unlatinate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Which does not (or seems not to) follow the Latin language's grammatical rules correctly.
Example Sentences
- "Ingemuitque aedificavitque aras in monte Chelion... (Prinz, p.139) The very unlatinate use of double -que could well reflect an attempt to imitate the Greek connective particles τε. . . τε."
- "In a world where Latin was not universally used, despite its dominance in certain contexts, feminized domesticity, potentially pemicious in its own right, becomes even more menacing when understood as vernacular, un-Latinate, and un-improving, and the educational institution, personified by the teacher, becomes all-important for the formation of character and mind."
- "And had we but known it, the 1960s were just round the corner with their real reach-out-by-translation committees to intelligibly plain speech in half as many syllables, whether in the New English Bible's: 'The earlier rules are cancelled as impotent and useless' or the Good News Bible's firmly unlatinate: 'The old rule then is set aside, because it was weak and useless.'"
- "The next chapter will investigate how this Benedictine identity is constructed through the creation of a caricatured other: the ignorant, unsophisticated, and unLatinate secular cleric."
Etymology
From un- + Latinate.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more unlatinate (comparative)
most unlatinate (superlative)
un-Latinate (alternative)
Synonyms
unlatined
unlatin