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a mode of expression derived from or imitative of Latin.
Historical Examples

In this Latinism the preterit denotes that a thing or condition that once existed no longer exists.
Modern Spanish Lyrics Various

To compel, literally means to drive together; as a herd (a Latinism and rare).
Orthography Elmer W. Cavins

There were authors who laboriously tried to Literary dangers of Latinism.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 8 Various

After the Tuscan mariners transformed; a Latinism, meaning, after the transformation of the Tuscan mariners.
Minor Poems by Milton John Milton

The expression is a Latinism, the gown standing for the toga.
Minor Poems by Milton John Milton

Only in Africa did “Latinism” fail to take root permanently.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 Various

This expression, however signior Sylli picked it up, is a Latinism: Erras, tota via aberras.
The Plays of Philip Massinger Philip Massinger

After the Tuscan mariners transformed: a Latinism; so, ‘since created man.
An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton Hiram Corson

Latinism, like every new craze, became a passion, and ran through the less intelligent kinds of writing in a wild excess.
English Literature: Modern G. H. Mair

Note the Latinism “threatened his heads,” and the imperfect rhyme “brands.”
Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book I Edmund Spenser

noun
a word, idiom, or phrase borrowed from Latin