Latinist
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- noun
- /ˈlætɪnɪst/
- Specialized
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latinista
- Since Queen Elizabeth I, who reigned as a "professional" virgin throughout Moulsworth's youth, was known as an accomplished Latinist, Moulsworth also subtly suggests an intellectual kinship with the Virgin Queen.
Examples
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As to his stature as a Latinist, there are none better.
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As a Latinist, she was invited to give a lecture on classical literature at the conference.
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If you said, "I want to be a great Latinist," you were competing with everybody in the class and in every class around the world.
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Oh, I'm still not much of A Latinist, but the great shame of my life is that I'm not good at languages.
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And when I was at Stanford, probably the most accomplished Latinist was Gregson Davis, an African American.
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Leo XII was a superb Latinist, but he also had a Latin advisor whose name escapes me.
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For the last twenty-five years, Foster has served as Latin secretary to three different popes, and today he is the senior Latinist to Pope John Paul II.
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Although he is one of the world's finest Latinists, Foster insists on teaching Latin at all levels, including the most elementary, so that he can make new converts.
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In the Sunday Telegraph, there is an article by Malcolm Moore about famed Fr. Reginald Foster, OCD, long-time Latinist for the Holy See.
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In 1969, when one of the pope's two principal Latinists, Amleto Tondini, who held the ancient title of Secretary for Briefs to Princes, died of a heart attack, Foster, at the age of thirty, was selected to take his place.
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Synonyms
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A person who studies the languages, literature, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome
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A person who studies old written languages and texts like Latin or Greek
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A person who studies ancient Greek and Latin language, writings, and culture
A person who speaks or writes in Latin
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Morphology
Etymology
Latinist comes from Latin, the language of ancient Rome, plus the ending -ist meaning 'a person who studies or is skilled in something', as in artist or pianist. So a Latinist is someone who studies, teaches, or is an expert in the Latin language and its literature.