Latinity

{{short description|Proficiency in Latin, or relating to Latins or Romans}}

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Latinity (Latinitas) is proficiency in Latin. The term may also be used to refer to the use of Latinisms or the imitation of Latin style.[https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198715443.001.0001/acref-9780198715443-e-1253 Latinity] in Chris Baldick (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, 4th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2015).

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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).

Category:Latin language

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