PATAVINITY

patavinity. Patavinity, n. a Paduan idiom used by Livy

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Pat′a‐vin″i‐ty (?), n. [[L. patavinitas, fr. Patavium: cf. F. patavinité]] The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; — so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity.