Dog Latin, barbarous Latin; a jargon in imitation of Latin; as, the log
Latin of schoolboys. -- Late Latin, Low Latin, terms used indifferently
to designate the latest stages of the Latin language; low Latin (and,
perhaps, late Latin also), including the barbarous coinages from the
French, German, and other languages into a Latin form made after the
Latin had become a dead language for the people. -- Law Latin, that
kind of late, or low, Latin, used in statutes and legal instruments; --
often barbarous.
Lat"in, v. t. To write or speak in Latin; to turn or render into Latin.
[Obs.] Fuller.
Lat"in*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. latinisme.] A Latin idiom; a mode of speech
peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as
English, formed on a Latin model.
The term is also sometimes used by Biblical scholars to designate a
Latin word in Greek letters, or the Latin sense of a Greek word in the
Greek Testament.
Lat"in*ist, n. [Cf. F. latiniste.] One skilled in Latin; a Latin
scholar. Cowper.
He left school a good Latinist.
Macaulay.
Lat`in*is"tic (?), a. Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the
Latin style or idiom. "Latinistic words." Fitzed. Hall.
La*tin"i*tas`ter (?), n. [Cf. Poetaster.] One who has but a smattering
of Latin. Walker.
La*tin"i*ty (?), n. [L. latinitas: cf. F. latinité.] The Latin tongue,
style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin
style or idiom. "His ele&?;ant Latinity." Motley.
Lat`in*i*za"tion (?), n. The act or process of Latinizing, as a word,
language, or country.
The Germanization of Britain went far deeper than the Latinization
of France.