Meanings of latinate in English

Alan bought himself a coffee with a sixteen-syllable latinate trade name ("Moch-a-latt-a-meraican-a-spress-a-chino," he liked to call them) at the Second Cup and hailed a taxi.

He wrote long and highly wrought sentences, loving lists of adjectives and clever, Latinate diction and elaborate punctuation.

He retained a highly literary, even Miltonic sense of the uses of the Latinate word - diurnal or jocund.

"Relax," Ortega said, his accent thick and vaguely Latinate.

Experts in verbosity and prolixity from around the world could be invited to attend a celebration of Ireland's lingering attachment to Latinate forms.