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benissimus
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Looking for a Latin word

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If anyone knows a Latin word equivalent or close in meaning to "understatement", I would appreciate it :wink:
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae

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Post by bingley »

Litotes is Greek, but you might be able to find it in a Latin work as a loanword.

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Post by Evito »

imminūtiō, ōnis f (imminuo) or
extenuātiō, ōnis f (extenuo)

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