Latinly

Latinly

English

Etymology

Latin +‎ -ly

Adverb

Latinly (not comparable)

1. In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin.
   • 1656, John Heylyn, A survey of the estate of France:

     You ſhall hardly finde a man amongſt them, which cannot make a shift to expresse himself in that language; nor one amongst a hundred that can do it Latinly

   • 1940, The American Dancer, page 42:

     Among them they have developed a repertoire of apparently endless variety, touching nearly every facet of the Spanish character, from the naively peasant to the Latinly sophisticated.

   • 2010, Grace Tiffany, “Being English Through Speaking English: Shakespeare and Early Modern Anti-Gallicism”, in Beatrice Batson, editor, Word and Rite: The Bible and Ceremony in Selected Shakespearean Works, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 35:

     There England’s enemies are the pope and his priestly minions or the French, all of whom write or speak Latinly.

   • 2013 January 12, Mike Bell, “When things we used to love boomerang back”, in Calgary Herald, page D1:

     Return. Re-turn. With “re” being defined, loosely, linguistically, Latinly, as “again,” and “turn” as, probably, “back.” So, “again back.”

   • 2017, Dennis Sepper, “Foreword”, in Eva T. H. Brann, The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance, 25th anniversary edition, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page xxiv:

     Brann takes the real in a (Latinly) literal sense, as meaning possessing ‘thinghood,’ “and material thinghood at that” (387).

References

• Latinly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913