Word Meanings - ROMANSCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin.
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- LATINIZATION
The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. The Germanization of Britain went far deeper than the Latinization of France. M. Arnold. - CORRUPTIONIST
One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith. - CORRUPTION
1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject - LATINITY
The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom. "His eleLatinity." Motley. - LATIN
Latium a country of Italy, in which Rome was situated. Cf. Ladin, 1. Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language. 2. Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; - LANGUAGE
tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the - LATINLY
In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin. Heylin. - LATINISTIC
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom. "Latinistic words." Fitzed. Hall. - LATINITASTER
One who has but a smattering of Latin. Walker. - LANGUAGELESS
Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak. - GRISONS
The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons. (more info) Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps. sing. - LATINIST
One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. Cowper. He left school a good Latinist. Macaulay. - LANGUAGED
Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope. - LATINIZE
1. To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin. 2. To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech. "Latinized races." Lowell. 3. To - LATINISM
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. Note: The term is also sometimes used by Biblical scholars to designate a Latin word in Greek letters, or the Latin - OSCILLATING
That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale. - OVERLANGUAGED
Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell. - VACILLATING
Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv. - PLATINIRIDIUM
A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum. - GELATINATION
The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly. - GELATINIZATION
See GELATINATION - NASOPALATAL; NASOPALATINE
Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve. - OSCILLATING CURRENT
A current alternating in direction. - PLATINOID
Resembling platinum. - INCORRUPTION
The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv. - PLATINICHLORIC
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid consisting of platinic chloride and hydrochloric acid, and obtained as a brownish red crystalline substance, called platinichloric, or chloroplatinic, acid. - NITROGELATIN
An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin. - ELECTROPLATING
The art or process of depositing a coating of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity. - PLATINIZE
To cover or combine with platinum. - PLATINOCYANIDE
A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid. - GELATINIFEROUS
Yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination. - SEA LANGUAGE
The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.