patavinity
English
Etymology
From Latin patavinitas, from Patavium (now Padua), where Livy was born. Compare French patavinité.
Noun
patavinity (usually uncountable, plural patavinities)
- The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for patavinity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)