Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

latinist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English

Syllables: la-tin-ist
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A scholar who studies the Latin language.

Example Sentences

"As the best plan will be to allow it to speak for itself, I here give the black-letter fac-simile, together with the original Latin without the contractions, from which it will be seen that the writer was a fair mediæval Latinist."

Etymology

From Latin + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Latin

Inflected Forms

Latinists (plural)

Questions

What does latinist mean?: A scholar who studies the Latin language.
Where does latinist come from?: From Latin + -ist.

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