latinist
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Noun (1)
- a specialist in the Latin languageType of classicist, classical scholar
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Lat′in·ist noun
Origin: Cf. F. latiniste.
One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. William Cowper
He left school a good Latinist.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54