rusticatio

noun

Meaning

Full-immersion Latin-language “summer camp” in the countryside or a secluded setting. Participants eat, work, play, and speak nothing but Latin for the entire period.

Examples

Llewellyn sees Rusticatio as a place where Latinists of all sorts, but Latin teachers in particular, grow more comfortable using Latin as a language
What’s a rusticatio? Well, it’s a live-in, immersion week of Latin in a rural setting, in which you only speak in Latin

Word Forms

rusticationes

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rūsticātiō (“rustication (living in the country)”)

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