Latinism

It was also on this mission that Leoni displayed his Atenean Latinism (at that time Latin was still taught) by being very interested in Latin words still used for student facilities, like mensa for the dinning hall.

'to the man'] is shortened from the LATINISM argumentum ad hominem ( = an argument directed not to the merits of an opponent's argument but to the personality or character of the opponent)." MODERN LEGAL USAGE, supra note 15, at 24.

(60.) See JAMES ARTHUR BALLENTINE, A LAW DICTIONARY 513 (1916) (setting forth the Latinism); ANTONIN SCALIA & BRYAN A.

the ethnic Afro Latino and Afro Latinism" as representative of the national culture (p.

As his name is a Latinism for Santa he must have thought all his Christmases had come at once.

The term 'lex sportiva' is not a pure Latinism, since the adjective 'sportiva' is not Latin, the term 'lex sportiva' obviously was created by analogy with lex mercatoria; see generally, Boris Kolev, 'Lex Sportiva and Lex Mercatoria'.

(Going a bit off-track: the Latinism lira also appears in the etymology of delirium, so we might think of learning as occurring when someone stays on track and delirium as a sign of being off-track).

That Latinism would have evoked, in readers of Blackwood's Magazine, from which it comes, images of convivial evenings of shared literary, perhaps bibulous, pleasures--high cultural moments in a Scottish idiom.

According to Vladimir Vodov, the title gosudar' is a semantic Latinism, translated in Ruthenian chanceries and penetrating in this way into the political vocabulary of Muscovy in the 1430s.

67; cinnamomum (Latinism?) 1840; collegiun 2055; communite 116; declinance 2222; deflorir 733, 741; defrire 1208 and passim cf.

It is my conjecture that the frequent Latinism of the age was no mere high-sounding gratification, no mere stratagem for swelling the page, but rather an eagerness to achieve universality and clarity.

Batsanyi's "mi modon" is a close translation of "quanam ratione." Unlike others, with the exception of Rehbach, Batsanyi begins this sentence with an apostrophe, "Oh barde!," where "bard" is put into the Latin vocative case, as the "e" ending shows, although this case is an example of Latinism in the Hungarian language.