Latinity

[ luh-tin-i-tee ]

noun

1. knowledge or use of the Latin language:

   He bemoaned the lack of Latinity among today's scholars.

2. Latin style or idiom.

Latinity

/ ləˈtɪnɪtɪ /

noun

1. facility in the use of Latin
2. Latin style, esp in literature

Word History and Origins

Origin of Latinity¹

First recorded in 1610–20, Latinity is from the Latin word latīnitās Latin style. See Latin, -ity

Example Sentences

When Mrs. May sent him news clippings about riots in Los Angeles, Mr. Hardin responded that the media was finally seeing that “maybe the blacks are less than saintly” and lamented “the predominant Latinity of apprehended criminals” where he lived in California.

From New York Times

Over the chimney again was a wide slab of marble, supported by two marble scrolls; and a tablet, on which was recorded, with very tolerable latinity, that that ch�teau had been built by Francis Count of Morseiul, in the year of grace one thousand five hundred and ninety.

From Project Gutenberg

Whatever it may have been in the eighteenth century, the Latin essay at the end of the nineteenth was perhaps hardly an infallible criterion of the professor-elect's Latinity, and it was just as well to discard it.

From Project Gutenberg

I hope you will approve of my Latinity.

From Project Gutenberg

As Hafen Slawkenbergius de Nasis is extremely scarce, it may not be unacceptable to the learned reader to see the specimen of a few pages of his original; I will make no reflection upon it, but that his story-telling Latin is much more concise than his philosophic—and, I think, has more of Latinity in it.

From Project Gutenberg