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Definition of Latinist
1. Noun. A specialist in the Latin language.
Definition of Latinist
1. n. One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar.
Definition of Latinist
1. Noun. A scholar who studies the Latin language. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Latinist
Literary usage of Latinist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1908)
"THE DEPENDENCY OF THE PROFESSIONAL latinist ON GREEK I felt a blush of shame ...
A professional latinist is one who pursues and in a measure encompasses the ..."
2. Anecdote Biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Richard Henry Stoddard (1876)
"SHELLEY AS A latinist. He composed Latin verses with singular facility. On visiting
him soon after his arrival at the accustomed hour of one, he was writing ..."
3. Charles Waterton, His Home, Habits, and Handiwork: Reminiscences of an by Richard Hobson (1867)
"Some verses having been published, in 1734, by that celebrated latinist Vincent
Bourne relative to the subject of ..."
4. Bibliotheca Wiffeniana: Spanish Reformers of Two Centuries from 1520. Their by Edward Boehmer, Benjamin Barron Wiffen (1883)
"... and Gambara were held by that great Italian latinist Paulus Manutius as the
men who wrote the best Latin verse of his time;6 Nuñez too praises them both ..."
5. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1906)
"That would have been quite another matter, for when it comes down to a question
of value there is a palpable difference between a latinist and a mule. ..."
6. The Writings of Mark Twain by Mark Twain (1908)
"That would have been quite another matter, for when it comes down to a question
of value there is a palpable difference between a latinist and a mule, ..."
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