Latinity (''Latinitas'') is proficiency in
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
. The term may also be used to refer to the use of
Latinisms
A Latinism (from ) is a word, idiom, or structure in a language other than Latin that is derived from, or suggestive of, the Latin language. The Term ''Latinism'' refers to those loan words that are borrowed into another language directly from L ...
or the imitation of Latin style.
Latinity
in Chris Baldick (ed.), ''The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms'', 4th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2015).
References
Further reading
*W. Martin Bloomer, ''Latinity and Literary Society at Rome'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997).
*Rebecca Stephenson, Emily V. Thornbury (eds.), ''Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature'' (University of Toronto Press, 2016).
*Jacqueline Glomski, Gesine Manuwald, Andrew Taylor (eds.), ''Baroque Latinity: Studies in the Neo-Latin Literature of the European Baroque'' (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Latin language
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