Latinity
noun
Latinity is a noun meaning “The quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing; the Latin language, as an area of study or interest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-A-T-I-N-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Latinity is Latinities.
What does Latinity mean?
noun
- 1
The quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing; the Latin language, as an area of study or interest.
- 2
Latin character
- 3
Latin literature considered as a whole
- 4
A Latinism
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Latinity
- Latinities plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Latinity?
Latinity appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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).
Latinity in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense essence of being Latin:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | latinité |
| German | Latinität |
| Portuguese | latinidade |
| Spanish | latinidad |
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 Latinity come from?
From Latin Latīnitās, from Latin Latīnus (“Latin”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).