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| Matching Terms: | latinise, latinist, latinistic | ||
| Definition: | \Lat"in*ism\, n. [Cf. F. latinisme.]
A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a
mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a
Latin model.
Note: The term is also sometimes used by Biblical scholars to
designate a Latin word in Greek letters, or the Latin
sense of a Greek word in the Greek Testament.
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