latinankielisillä

Latinankielisillä is a Finnish adjectival form meaning “Latin-language” or “in the Latin language.” It describes nouns that pertain to Latin language contexts or to Latin-speaking groups, and it is used mainly in linguistic, philological, or historical writing. The word is the inessive plural form of latinankielinen, so it accompanies plural nouns in the inessive case, for example latinankielisillä lähteillä (on Latin-language sources) or latinankielisillä ihmisillä (among Latin-speaking people).

Morphology and etymology are straightforward within Finnish: latinankielinen is formed from the stem latinankieli (Latin language) plus the common adjectival ending -inen. In the plural inessive, the ending becomes -isillä, yielding latinankielisillä. This construction parallels other language-based adjectives in Finnish, such as englanninkielisillä (in/on English-language contexts) or saksankielisillä, and is used across academic registers to specify the language of sources, texts, or speakers.

Usage notes include that latinankielisillä does not denote a modern spoken community but typically refers to Latin-language texts, sources, or historical groups described as Latin-speaking. It functions as a descriptive qualifier in sentences like “latinankielisillä lähteillä käsitelty tieto” or “latinankielisillä kirjoilla säilynyt tieteellinen terminologia.” The term is part of standard Finnish grammar and is commonly encountered in scholarly Finnish writing.

See also: latinankielinen, englanninkielinen, latinan kieli, Latin.