literatim

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literatim (lit-uh-RAY-tim) - adv., letter-for-letter.


So not just verbatim, which is word-for-word, but the same at even finer detail. Used mostly to describe copying of text -- so if the spelling has been modernized, it is not literatim. Adopted in the 1620s from Medieval Latin litterātim, from littera, letter + adverbial suffix -im.

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