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n noun
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, especially 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, especially 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.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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Latin (ˈlætɪn) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Late Latin Low Latin Medieval Latin New Latin See Old Latin See also Romance the language of ancient Rome and the Roman Empire and of the educated in medieval Europe, which achieved its classical form during the 1st century |
| 2. | a member of any of those peoples whose languages are derived from Latin |
| 3. | an inhabitant of ancient Latium |
| —adj | |
| 4. | of or relating to the Latin language, the ancient Latins, or Latium |
| 5. | characteristic of or relating to those peoples in Europe and Latin America whose languages are derived from Latin |
| 6. | of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church |
| 7. | denoting or relating to the Roman alphabet |
| [Old English latin and læden Latin, language, from Latin Latīnus of Latium] | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
Latin
O.E. latin, from L. Latinus "belonging to Latium," the region of Italy around Rome, possibly from PIE base *stela- "to spread, extend," with a sense of "flat country" (as opposed to the mountainous district of the Sabines), or from a prehistoric non-IE language.
Centurion: What's this, then? People called Romanes they go the house?Used as a designation for "people whose languages descend from Latin" (1856), hence Latin American (1893). The Latin Quarter (Fr. Quartier latin) of Paris, on the south (left) bank of the Seine, was the site of university buildings in the Middle Ages, hence the place where Latin was spoken. The surname Latimer, Lattimore, etc. is from V.L. latimarus, from L. latinarius "interpreter," lit. "a speaker of Latin."
Brian: It ... it says, Romans, go home.
Centurion [thrashing him like a schoolboy]: No, it doesn't. Go home?' This is motion towards. Isn't it, boy?
Brian: Ah ... ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the ... accusative! Domum, sir! Ah! Oooh! Ah!
Centurion [pulling him by the ear]: Except that domum takes the ...?
Brian: The locative, sir!
[Monty Python, "Life of Brian"]
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
Latin definition
The language of ancient Rome. When Rome became an empire, the language spread throughout southern and western Europe.
Note: The modern Romance languages — French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and a few others — are all derived from Latin.
Note: During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Latin was the universal language of learning. Even in modern English, many scholarly, technical, and legal terms, such as per se and habeas corpus, retain their Latin form.
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Latin definition
the vernacular language of the ancient Romans (John 19:20).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences from the web
Later, he became a professor and taught rhetoric, or in other words latin.
This facilitated reading, as these monks tended to be less familiar with latin.
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