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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 Latinplay

  Familiarity information: LATINISM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LATINISM (noun)


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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