Latinicaladj.
/ləˈtɪnɪkəl/ = Latinic adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > laboured or pedantic > Latinizing or Latinized
Latinizing1642
Latinized1807
hyperlatinistic1819
Latinistic1886
Latinical1892
Latinate1904
1892 Forum (N.Y.) July 585 He [sc. Hardy] is, in point of diction, the most Latinical writer we have had since Dryden and Milton.
1919 J. C. Mendenhall Aureate Terms i. 7 Such long and supposedly elegant words have been dubbed ‘aureate terms’, because..they represent a kind of verbal gilding of literary style. The phrase may be traced back..in the sense of long Latinical words of learned aspect, used to express a comparatively simple idea.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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adj.1892- accreditate
- accreditated
- accreditation
- accreditations
- accredited
- accrediting
- accredits
- accrementitial
- accrementition
- accrementitious
- accresce
- accrescence
- accrescences
- accrescency
- accrescent
- accrescimento
- accrete
- accreted
- accretes
- accreting
- accretion
- accretion disc
- accretion rate
- accretion thinning
- accretional