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Latinism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any word or phrase borrowed from Latin, or suggestive of Latin.

    "[discussing numquam in the Old French portion of the Oaths of Strasbourg] a Latinizing spelling, maybe a pure Latinism, not surviving in modern French (but cf. Old French onques < umquam ‘ever’). Note the double negative, literally ‘will never make no pact’"

  2. 2
    a word or phrase borrowed from Latin wordnet

Etymology

From Latin + -ism.

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