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A word or phrase borrowed from Latin.

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Usage examples (31)
  • But my favorite Latinism, which is actually quite useful.
  • Latinism was a flavor of the soul, and the modern soul rarely, if ever, assumes that flavor.
  • What Latinism did, however, was to teach the appreciation of the dignity of time, the beauty of the passing years, and their enriching effect on things and men.
  • If the Board of Education wants its teachers to instruct adolescents about HIV using Latinism of the academy, excluding vulgarism of the street, it should tell them so,...
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