Latinist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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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