[lat-n] 
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Lat·in (lāt'n) n.
[Middle English, from Old French and from Old English lǣden, both from Latin Latīnus, from Latium, an ancient country of west-central Italy.] |
Latin
the vernacular language of the ancient Romans (John 19:20).
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