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What does Latinate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Latinate? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (not comparable) Of or derived from Latin.
  2. (comparable) Characteristic of or pertaining to Latin.
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The 15th century represents a low point for the Latinate tradition, but it revives in the 16th century under the impact of humanism and the regeneration of the universities.
He is known to be difficult, because of his love of the Latinate, and his non-linear, digressive, even symphonic, narrative style.
This taste for the construction of literary enigmas, puzzles, labyrinths, and visual designs, all presented in an esoteric, Latinate style, led to cabalistic and occult exercises.
In the poet's home, the language was High German, while the wider community generally used the more Latinate Romanian.
Some find his speeches entrancing, but few, wading through his long Latinate sentences, can work out exactly what he stands for.
Nicolaus Copernicus is the Latinate name of the renowned astronomer and polymath, born in 1473 to a well-placed mercantile family in the Polish town of Torun.

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