Latinist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A scholar who studies the Latin language.
"As the best plan will be to allow it to speak for itself, I here give the black-letter fac-simile, together with the original Latin without the contractions, from which it will be seen that the writer was a fair mediæval Latinist."
- 2 a specialist in the Latin language wordnet
Example
More examples"As the best plan will be to allow it to speak for itself, I here give the black-letter fac-simile, together with the original Latin without the contractions, from which it will be seen that the writer was a fair mediæval Latinist."
Etymology
From Latin + -ist.
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