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LATINISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Latinism mean?
• LATINISM (noun)
The noun LATINISM has 1 sense:
1. a word or phrase borrowed from Latin
Familiarity information: LATINISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A word or phrase borrowed from Latin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Latinism" is a kind of...):
loan; loanword (a word borrowed from another language; e.g. 'blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English)
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