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unlatinate en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + Latinate.

Meanings

1. Which does not (or seems not to) follow the Latin language's grammatical rules correctly.
   • Ingemuitque aedificavitque aras in monte Chelion... (Prinz, p.139) The very unlatinate use of double -que could well reflect an attempt to imitate the Greek connective particles τε. . . τε. 2001, Michael W. Herren, “The "Greek Element" in the "Cosmographia" of Aethicus Ister”, in The Journal of Medieval Latin, volume 11, page 197:
   • In a world where Latin was not universally used, despite its dominance in certain contexts, feminized domesticity, potentially pemicious in its own right, becomes even more menacing when understood as vernacular, un-Latinate, and un-improving, and the educational institution, personified by the teacher, becomes all-important for the formation of character and mind. 2017, Victoria Moul, A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature:
2. (derogatory) Ignorant of the Latin language.
   • And had we but known it, the 1960s were just round the corner with their real reach-out-by-translation committees to intelligibly plain speech in half as many syllables, whether in the New English Bible's: 'The earlier rules are cancelled as impotent and useless' or the Good News Bible's firmly unlatinate: 'The old rule then is set aside, because it was weak and useless.' 2005, Lynne Long, chapter 2, in Translation and Religion:
   • The next chapter will investigate how this Benedictine identity is constructed through the creation of a caricatured other: the ignorant, unsophisticated, and unLatinate secular cleric. 2015, Rebecca Stephenson, The Politics of Language, page 67:

Forms

Synonyms

unlatin · unlatined