Latinism

One might pass on the flavor of Latinism.

(Some linguists blame the forces of Latinism for this rule.

"His Latinism led him to believe, it sometimes seemed, that he was living in Julius Caesar's time.

Uh oh, a Latinism.

"It's the horror of horror vacui," he says, referring to the Latinism for the impulse to leave marks on every space.

A Latinism (also called Latinity) is an idiom, structure, or word derived from or suggestive of the Latin language.

Mr. Zippel's career path is not, as lawyers like to say, sui generis - a law school Latinism for "unique."

In time, Latinism opservatorija replaced zvezdara, which in turn completely disappeared from spoken language as such, but remained as a name of Belgrade's neighborhood.

Of the writers cited here (and the many others consulted) who ascribe the split-infinitive prohibition to Latinism, none cite an authority who condemned the construction on that basis.

As a matter of fact, the name of the country itself comes from a Latinism which first appeared in a literary source: Martin del Barco Centenera's epic poem La Argentina (1602).

Charles-Brun advocated an international Latinism and the creation of a democratic "confederation latine" ("Latin Confederation") while rejecting Latin imperialist proposals of a "Latin Empire".

Writing poetry is presented in the wholly artificial diction of tending the shepherd's trade, or in a Latinism that is not even correct, colloquial, normal English in meditating the thankless muse.

Croatian Latin literature (or Croatian Latinism) is a term referring to literary works, written in the Latin language, which have evolved in present-day Croatia since the 9th century AD.

He talks to Magus Perdé (a character whose role is never quite made clear-his name is an apparent Latinism that could be translated as "lost magician") about his desire to go back to where he came from.

Martin Jugie states that the opposition of the Latins and the Latinophrones, who were necessarily hostile to the doctrine, actually contributed to its adoption, and soon Latinism and Antipalamism became equivalent in the minds of many Orthodox Christians.

While he was instrumental in bringing Sophia Paleologue from Rome to Moscow in 1472, Philip was against admitting a papal legate in her entourage into Moscow, thus continuing his opposition to Catholicism or "Latinism" in his province.

After the January Uprising he advised Nikolai Milyutin to support Polish peasantry as the embodiment of "the Slavic soul" of Poland at the expense of "the forces of Latinism", i.e., rebellious nobility and Catholic clergy.

Macdonald's great 1958 essay, "By Cozzens Possessed," eviscerated only one author, the then celebrated and now deservedly obscure James Gould Cozzens, but laid out in the process an unforgettable taxonomy of literary pretentiousness - priggishness, pseudoprofundity, sententiousness, melodrama, excessive Latinism, inversion of syntax.

Aside from the novel's jagged formlessness and Amis's wearisome fondness for comic euphemism (there isn't an embarrassing bodily function that he doesn't dress up with a fancy Latinism), the writing is still agile and exact, the hyperbole driven and punishing and the characters - when he lets them be - charismatically repulsive.