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Latinate, a.|ˈlætɪnət|
Also latinate.
[f. Latin a. and n. + -ate2 2.]
Of, pertaining to, or derived from Latin; having a Latin character. Also, occas., resembling an inhabitant of a Latin country.
1904Atlantic Monthly Nov. 690/2 Cranmer transferred to the English..the rich sound and rhythm of the mediæval Latin; and that without the use of Latinate words. 1952D. Davie Purity of Diction in Eng. Verse iv. 67 With intent Of being officious, grow impertinent... ‘Officious’ (in its Latinate sense, as in Johnson's ‘Elegy on Robert Levett’) defines and is defined by ‘impertinent’. 1956Essays in Crit. VI. 260 An anxious, questioning, excited passage, more latinate in diction. 1960Times 16 Mar. 16/7 Miss Miranda, flamboyant and Latinate in temperament, is given..the part. 1962W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use i. 23 Latinate syntax is important to Milton because it provides him with more ways..of devising contrasts. 1971D. Crystal Ling. 143 The distortions which..Latinate descriptions could impose. |