patavinity

From Latin patavinitas, from Patavium (now Padua), where Livy was born. Compare French patavinité.

patavinity (usually uncountable, plural patavinities)

1. (Ancient Rome) The use of local or provincial words from Patavium

   Livy, the Roman historian was often accused of patavinity.

• Paduanism

• “patavinity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.