Unlatinate
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Which does not (or seems not to) follow the Latin language's grammatical rules correctly.
"Ingemuitque aedificavitque aras in monte Chelion... (Prinz, p.139) The very unlatinate use of double -que could well reflect an attempt to imitate the Greek connective particles τε. . . τε."
- 2 Ignorant of the Latin language. derogatory
"And had we but known it, the 1960s were just round the corner with their real reach-out-by-translation committees to intelligibly plain speech in half as many syllables, whether in the New English Bible's: 'The earlier rules are cancelled as impotent and useless' or the Good News Bible's firmly unlatinate: 'The old rule then is set aside, because it was weak and useless.'"
Synonyms
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More examples"Ingemuitque aedificavitque aras in monte Chelion... (Prinz, p.139) The very unlatinate use of double -que could well reflect an attempt to imitate the Greek connective particles τε. . . τε."
Etymology
From un- + Latinate.
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