Latinity

From Latin Latīnitās, from Latin Latīnus (“Latin”).

Latinity (countable and uncountable, plural Latinities)

1. (countable) The quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing; the Latin language, as an area of study or interest.
   • 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, Limited., published 1886, →OCLC:

     “Well, well,” said the lawyer, when I had quite done, “this is a great epic, a great Odyssey of yours. You must tell it, sir, in a sound Latinity when your scholarship is riper; or in English if you please, though for my part I prefer the stronger tongue. […]

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome.

   • 2012, Barbara Newman, ‘Ailments of the Tongue’, London Review of Books, vol. 34 no. 6:

     Girls might infiltrate the clubhouse but men alone remain the teachers and theorists of Latinity.

2. (uncountable) Latin character
3. (uncountable) Latin literature considered as a whole
4. (countable) A Latinism

• Latinhood
• Latinness