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–noun

1.	a Rhaeto-Romanic dialect of the southern Tyrol.

2.	a dialect of Romansh spoken in the Inn River valley of Grisons canton, Switzerland.

3.	a person who speaks Ladin.

[Origin: 1875–80; < Romansh < L Latīnus Latin

]

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n.

See Romansh.
A dialect of Romansh spoken in Engadine between Saint Moritz and the Austrian border.
A person who is a native speaker of Ladin.

[Romansh, from Latin Latīnus, Latin; see Latin.]

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Ro·mansh also Ro·mansch Audio Help (rō-mänsh', -mānsh') Pronunciation Key
n. The Rhaeto-Romance dialect that is an official language of Switzerland. Also called Ladin.

[Romansh Romonsch, from Latin Rōmānicus, Roman; see romance.]

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Ladin

1877, Rhaeto-Romanic dialect spoken in Switzerland and Tyrol, from L. Latinus "Latin."

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ladin
noun
a Rhaeto-Romance dialect of Romansh spoken in southeastern Switzerland

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Ladin

La*din"\, n. [From L. Latinus Latin. See Latin] A Romansch dialect spoken in some parts of Switzerland and the Tyrol.

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Ladin

Lat"in\, a. [F., fr. L. Latinus belonging to Latium, Latin, fr. Latium a country of Italy, in which Rome was situated. Cf. Ladin, Lateen sail, under Lateen.]

1. Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.

2. Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom.

Latin Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Western or Roman Catholic Church, as distinct from the Greek or Eastern Church.

Latin cross. See Illust. 1 of Cross.

Latin races, a designation sometimes loosely given to certain nations, esp. the French, Spanish, and Italians, who speak languages principally derived from Latin.

Latin Union, an association of states, originally comprising France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy, which, in 1865, entered into a monetary agreement, providing for an identity in the weight and fineness of the gold and silver coins of those countries, and for the amounts of each kind of coinage by each. Greece, Servia, Roumania, and Spain subsequently joined the Union.

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