latinity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing; the Latin language, as an area of study or interest.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Girls might infiltrate the clubhouse but men alone remain the teachers and theorists of Latinity."
Etymology
From Latin Latīnitās, from Latin Latīnus (“Latin”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Latīnitās