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Latinity

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.

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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.1

References

References

  1. Latinity in Chris Baldick (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, 4th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Further reading

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).