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Meaning of LATINISM

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Lat"in*ism\, n. [Cf. F. latinisme.]
A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a
mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a
Latin model.

Note: The term is also sometimes used by Biblical scholars to
      designate a Latin word in Greek letters, or the Latin
      sense of a Greek word in the Greek Testament.

 

 

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