Latinitas

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Latin

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Etymology

Latīnus (“of or belonging to Latium”) +‎ -tās (“-ity”). The linguistic sense most likely a calque of Ancient Greek Ἑλληνισμός (Hellēnismós).

Pronunciation

Noun

Latīnitās f (genitive Latīnitātis); third declension

  1. (speech and literature) correct Latin style or usage, Latinity; the Latin language
    1. (with modifiers) the Latin usage of a particular epoch
  2. (law) Latin civil rights, Latin citizenship
  3. (Medieval Latin) Latin Christendom

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative Latīnitās Latīnitātēs
genitive Latīnitātis Latīnitātum
dative Latīnitātī Latīnitātibus
accusative Latīnitātem Latīnitātēs
ablative Latīnitāte Latīnitātibus
vocative Latīnitās Latīnitātēs

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Further reading

  • “lătīnĭtas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Latinitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Latinitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “Latinitas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Latinitas”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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