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noun
Any word or phrase borrowed from Latin, or suggestive of Latin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rhetoric
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noun
a word or phrase borrowed from Latin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: loanword, loan
History
Etymology tree English Latin Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Latinism From Latin + -ism.
Across languages
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