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Lat⋅in

  [lat-n]
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1. an Italic language spoken in ancient Rome, fixed in the 2nd or 1st century b.c., and established as the official language of the Roman Empire. Abbreviation: L
2. one of the forms of literary Latin, as Medieval Latin, Late Latin, Biblical Latin, or Liturgical Latin, or of nonclassical Latin, as Vulgar Latin.
3. a native or inhabitant of Latium; an ancient Roman.
4. a member of any of the Latin peoples, or those speaking chiefly Romance languages, esp. a native of or émigré from Latin America.
5. a member of the Latin Church; a Roman Catholic, as distinguished from a member of the Greek Church.
–adjective
6. denoting or pertaining to those peoples, as the Italians, French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc., using languages derived from Latin, esp. the peoples of Central and South America: a meeting of the Latin republics.
7. of or pertaining to the Latin Church.
8. of or pertaining to Latium, its inhabitants, or their language.
9. of or pertaining to the Latin alphabet.
Origin:
bef. 950; ME, OE < L Latīnus. See Latium, -ine 1
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Lat·in   (lāt'n)   
n.  

    1. The Indo-European language of the ancient Latins and Romans and the most important cultural language of western Europe until the end of the 17th century.

    2. The Latin language and literature from the end of the third century B.C. to the end of the second century A.D.

    3. A member of a Latin people, especially a native or inhabitant of Latin America.

    4. A Latino or Latina.

    1. A member of a Latin people, especially a native or inhabitant of Latin America.

    2. A Latino or Latina.

  3. A native or resident of ancient Latium.

adj.  

  1. Of, relating to, or composed in Latin: a Latin scholar; Latin verse.

    1. Of or relating to ancient Rome, its people, or its culture.

    2. Of or relating to Latium, its people, or its culture.

    3. Of or relating to the peoples, countries, or cultures of Latin America.

    4. Of or relating to Latinos or their culture.

  3. Of or relating to the languages that developed from Latin, such as Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, or to the peoples that speak them.

    1. Of or relating to the peoples, countries, or cultures of Latin America.

    2. Of or relating to Latinos or their culture.

  5. Of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.


[Middle English, from Old French and from Old English lǣden, both from Latin Latīnus, from Latium, an ancient country of west-central Italy.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Latin

the vernacular language of the ancient Romans (John 19:20).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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