Latinism

English

Etymology

Latin +‎ -ism

Noun

Latinism (plural Latinisms)

Any word or phrase borrowed from Latin, or suggestive of Latin.
- 2010, Ti Alkire, Carol Rosen, Romance Languages: a historical introduction page 325:
  [discussing numquam in the Old French portion of the Oaths of Strasbourg] a Latinizing spelling, maybe a pure Latinism, not surviving in modern French (but cf. Old French onques < umquam ‘ever’). Note the double negative, literally ‘will never make no pact’

Coordinate terms

(foreignisms) foreignism; Akkadianism / Akkadism, Americanism, Amharism, Anglicism, Arabism, Aramaism, Armenism, Australianism, Batavism, Belorussianism, Bengalism, Briticism, Bulgarism, Catalanism, Church Slavicism / Church Slavonicism / Slavonicism, Croatism, Czechism / Bohemianism, Gallicism / Frenchism, Germanism / Teutonism, Grecism / Hellenism, Hebraism, Hispanism / Hispanicism / Castilianism, Hungarianism / Magyarism, Indianism, Iranianism, Irishism, Italianism / Italicism, Japanism, Kazakhism, Latinism, Macedonianism, Mandaism, Moravianism, New Zealandism, Persianism, Polonism, Portuguesism, Russianism, Scotticism, Serbism, Serbo-Croatism, Sinicism, Slavism, Slovenism / Pannonianism, Sumerianism / Sumerism, Syriacism, Turkism, Ukrainism / Ukrainianism, Uzbekism, Yiddishism

Derived terms

pseudo-Latinism

Translations

Latinism

Breton: latinadur m
Catalan: llatinisme (ca) m
Czech: latinismus m
Dutch: latinisme (nl) n
Finnish: latinismi
German: Latinismus (de) m
Greek: λατινισμός (el) m (latinismós)
Italian: latinismo (it) m
Polish: latynizm (pl) m
Portuguese: latinismo (pt) m
Spanish: latinismo (es) m
Welsh: Lladineb f

Anagrams

limitans

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