Latinist
noun
Latinist is a noun meaning “A scholar who studies the Latin language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-A-T-I-N-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Latinist is Latinists.
What does Latinist mean?
noun
- 1
A scholar who studies the Latin language.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Latinist
- Latinists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Latinist?
Latinist appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Latinist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense scholar who studies Latin:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Latinist come from?
From Latin + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).