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Latinate
" If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion."
Lydia Davis

Meaning of "Latinate" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF LATINATE

ˈlætɪˌneɪt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LATINATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Latinate is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES LATINATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Latin

Latin is an ancient Italic language originally spoken by the Italic Latins in Latium and Ancient Rome. Along with most European languages, it is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Influenced by the Etruscan language and using the Greek alphabet as a basis, it took form as what is recognizable as Latin in the Italian Peninsula. Modern Romance languages are continuations of dialectal forms of the language. Additionally many students, scholars, and some members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and it is still taught in some primary, secondary and post-secondary educational institutions around the world. Latin is still used in the creation of new words in modern languages of many different families, including English, and largely in biological taxonomy. Latin and its derivative Romance languages are the only surviving languages of the Italic language family. Other languages of the Italic branch were attested in the inscriptions of early Italy, but were assimilated to Latin during the Roman Republic.

Definition of Latinate in the English dictionary

The definition of Latinate in the dictionary is imitative of or derived from Latin.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LATINATE

agglutinate · catenate · concatenate · conglutinate · coordinate · deglutinate · dominate · eliminate · festinate · gelatinate · gratinate · haemagglutinate · hemagglutinate · laminate · originate · pectinate · predestinate · procrastinate · repristinate · terminate

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LATINATE

Latin America · Latin American · Latin Church · Latin cross · latin lover · Latin Quarter · Latin school · Latin square · Latin-1 · Latina · Latinisation · Latinise · Latiniser · Latinism · Latinist · Latinity · Latinization · Latinize · Latinizer · Latino

WORDS THAT END LIKE LATINATE

aluminate · assassinate · contaminate · determinate · disseminate · donate · fascinate · hallucinate · illuminate · indeterminate · indiscriminate · indoctrinate · marinate · nominate · ordinate · paginate · predominate · ruminate · subordinate · succinate · urinate

Synonyms and antonyms of Latinate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Latinate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LATINATE

Find out the translation of Latinate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of Latinate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Latinate» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

拉丁
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

Latinate
570 millions of speakers
en

English

Latinate
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

लैटिन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اللاتينية من
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Latinate
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

Latinate
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ল্যাটিন ভাষার বৈশিষ্ট্যযুক্ত
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

Latinate
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Latinate
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Latinate
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

Latinate
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

라틴어
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Latinate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Latinate
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

லத்தீன்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Latinate
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Latin kökenli
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

latinizzazione
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

Latinate
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Latinate
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

latină
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λατινοφωνία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Latinate
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

latinsk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Latinate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Latinate

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LATINATE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of Latinate
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Latinate

EXAMPLES

QUOTES WITH «LATINATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Latinate.
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Lydia Davis
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LATINATE»

Discover the use of Latinate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Latinate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Jews in the Notarial Culture: Latinate Wills in ...
"--Robert Chazan, author of "European Jewry and the First Crusade" Through his analysis of this material, Burns introduces the reader to Jewish domestic life an interior life in the Realms of Aragon and shows how details such as the ...
Robert Ignatius Burns, 1996
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Morphological Productivity: Structural Constraints in ...
The first type only combines with native stems, the second type only (or primarily) attaches to Latinate stems, and the third type ignores this distinction and combines with both kinds of stems. The only real example of the first type is probably ...
Ingo Plag, 1999
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Morphology: Morphology: its relation to phonology
First, as was noted above, the dual membership of a number of affixes heavily dilutes the tendency of the [± Latinate] distinction to correlate with strata 1 and 2 respectively. Stratum- 1 -ity, for example, not only fails to attach to stratum-2 -less  ...
Francis Katamba, 2004
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Morphology and Computation
for latinate morphology and one for native morphology. Each of these strata is the locus of the morphological rules of its particular type. Furthermore, the strata are ordered so that the latinate stratum feeds into the native stratum, but not the ...
Richard William Sproat, 1992
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Word-Formation in English
In contrast, for each pair of derivatives with the same suffix in ( 1 8b) it can be said that the first member of the pair has a native base, the second a Latinate base, which shows that these suffixes tolerate both kinds of bases. The interesting ...
Ingo Plag, 2003
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Lexical Strata in English: Morphological Causes, ...
Latinate formations first entered the language on a large scale, innovating stress- shifting suffixation in English (Halle and Keyser 1971). Even in such a situation the morphology would need crucial recourse to the feature [± Latinate] – its ...
Heinz J. Giegerich, 1999
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Simplicity in Generative Morphology
Yet break must be -Latinate: cf. *breakive. Formalizing a suggestion of Aronoff s ( 1976: 52), Lieber says (80: 84) that the reason that -ity can attach to breakable is that -able is itself marked +Latinate, and this marking percolates up to the whole ...
Harry Bochner, 1993
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Phonological Representations: Their Names, Forms and Powers
This initially problematic situation is remediated by a recognition and separation of several hierarchically distinct levels of prosodic constituency, corresponding to Latinate, Germanic, Compound and Inflectional morphophonology, the four ...
John Coleman, 2005
9
Laboratory Phonology 8
These results indicate that velar softening is productive for most educated adults. Results by target type are shown in Table 1. For Latinate hits, softening applied nearly 100% of the time. It was somewhat less reliable for the semi-Latinate hits,  ...
Louis Goldstein, D. H. Whalen, Catherine T. Best, 2006
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Vocabulary at the Core: Teaching the Common Core Standards
Phrasal verbs, two-part verbs that are common in English conversation, gener- ally correspond to Latinate verbs. In academic discourse, we find the Latinate versions of the phrasal verbs. Because the Latinate verbs occur less frequently than ...
Amy Benjamin, John T. Crow, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LATINATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Latinate is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lesson on Latinate English word usage from a linguist in Germany
SOME attributes of particular words or phrases do get lost or mutated in translation, as in the case of “symphony,” an English word that—in the ... «The Manila Times, Jul 15»
2
How Dare You Say That! The Evolution of Profanity - WSJ
... using fancy Latinate terms in place of native English ones for more private matters. Thus was born a slightly antiseptic vocabulary, with words ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
3
How Do You Speak American? Mostly, Just Make Up Words
In this mish-mash of Germanic and Latinate forms, what distinguishes the language that's used in this country? How do you speak American? «Atlas Obscura, Jul 15»
4
An Oxford English Dictionary for the Millennial Set, Fo' Shizzle
Borrowing from Latinate geographical terminology like transalpine/cisalpine, the prefix trans- in this context means "on the other side of" and ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
5
Just when you thought the Army had its shit together, it puts out a …
The writers almost always choose the longer, Latinate word over of the shorter, stronger Anglo-Saxon alternative. They are repetitive. And they ... «Foreign Policy, Jul 15»
6
'In Search of Sir Thomas Browne,' by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
It is characterized by rolling periods decked with balanced subordinate clauses, a polysyllabic Latinate vocabulary, elaborate rhythms, stately ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Swear words, etymology, and the history of English
... verbiage with Latinate loquacity. The impact of the Romance is amusingly highlighted in Poul Anderson's 1989 article, 'Uncleftish Beholding', ... «OUPblog, Jul 15»
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Poetry: Fraught sex and sexuality and an unusual provenance
through its pin-pricked head: the meat. of the word made orotund and Latinate. It's like putting your mouth to the smooth. breast of the ocarina, ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
9
Ed Goldman: A modest proposal to help Greece and Puerto Rico
... they are, which would require melding their foods and customs into a hybrid culture — called something like Hellenic Latinate — problematic. «Sacramento Business Journal, Jul 15»
10
14 Words For Sadness And Depression That Don't Exist In English
This may be cheating, as Old English is no longer in use — but hey, we use Latinate words all the time. Wintercearig literally means “winter-care,” but it isn't ... «Bustle, Jun 15»
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