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单词 latinity
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Latinityn.

/ləˈtɪnɪti/
Etymology: < Latin latīnitātem, < Latīnus : see Latin adj. and n. and -ity suffix.
1. The manner of speaking or writing Latin; Latin (with reference to its construction or style).In the first quot. the sense of the word is doubtful, and the text insecure.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > style in Latin
Latinity1619
1619 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) II. 172 One Shingleton..who preaching in Pauls..glanced, they say, scandalously at him [Bacon], and his Latinities, as he called them.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 241 The Romans expressed the womans marriage by, nubere, which signifies to vail... Neither doubt I but before all latinity was hatched this was alluded to by Abimelech, Genes. 20. 16.
1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 148 That cardinal..that said, that once indeed he had read the Bible, but if he were to do it again, 'twould lose him all his Latinity.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xlvii. 738 His latinity is pure.
1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 93 [He] used to..growl as he compounded the medicines over the bad latinity of the prescriptions.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. v. 48/1 I undertook to compose his Epitaph..which, however, for an alleged defect of Latinity..still remains unengraven.
1865 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire (new ed.) VIII. lxiv. 100 The last remains we possess of classical Latinity are the biographies of the later emperors.
2. Roman Law. The status of a Latin citizen.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > status or rights of being a citizen > specific
portery1565
burgess-ship1610
Latinity1880
1880 J. Muirhead in tr. Gaius Institutes i. 9 (note) On the nature of colonial latinity see Savigny.
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes i. 38 Latinity is either the greater or the lesser. There is the greater latinity when those who..fill some high office or magistracy, acquire Roman citizenship [along with their parents, wives, and children]; the lesser, when those who..hold a magisterial or other high office, themselves alone attain to citizenship.
3. Latin character.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > ethnicities > Latin and Romance people > [noun] > character
Latinity1915
1915 M. C. Fraser More Italian Yesterdays x. 191 True to their Latinity, they gave their victim no chance of testing it [sc. their mistrust].
1934 G. B. Shaw Prefaces 740/1 By the end of the nineteenth century the press and the theatre had lost all their Latinity.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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