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Meaning of PATAVINITY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pat`a*vin"i*ty\, n. [L. patavinitas, fr. Patavium:
cf. F. patavinit['e]]
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.
 
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