unlatinate

comparative more unlatinate · superlative most unlatinate · alternative un-Latinate · alternative unLatinate

1. Which does not (or seems not to) follow the Latin language's grammatical rules correctly.

   Ingemuitque aedificavitque aras in monte Chelion... (Prinz, p.139) The very unlatinate use of double -que could well reflect an attempt to imitate the Greek connective particles τε. . . τε.

   2001, Michael W. Herren, “The "Greek Element" in the "Cosmographia" of Aethicus Ister”, in The Journal of Medieval Latin, volume 11, page 197

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   In a world where Latin was not universally used, despite its dominance in certain contexts, feminized domesticity, potentially pemicious in its own right, becomes even more menacing when understood as vernacular, un-Latinate, and un-improving, and the educational institution, personified by the teacher, becomes all-important for the formation of character and mind.

   2017, Victoria Moul, A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature

2. derogatoryIgnorant of the Latin language.

   The next chapter will investigate how this Benedictine identity is constructed through the creation of a caricatured other: the ignorant, unsophisticated, and unLatinate secular cleric.

   2015, Rebecca Stephenson, The Politics of Language, page 67

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   And had we but known it, the 1960s were just round the corner with their real reach-out-by-translation committees to intelligibly plain speech in half as many syllables, whether in the New English Bible's: 'The earlier rules are cancelled as impotent and useless' or the Good News Bible's firmly unlatinate: 'The old rule then is set aside, because it was weak and useless.'

   2005, Lynne Long, chapter 2, in Translation and Religion

   Synonyms: unlatined, unlatin