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Appendix:Variations of "latin"
English
la
la
Pronunciation
lătʹĭn
en /ˈlæt.ɪn/ RP
en /ˈlæt.ɪn/ [ˈlæt.n̩] [ˈlæʔ.n̩] GA,CA
en en-us-Latin.ogg California
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Grendelkhan-Latin.wav Connecticut
en /ˈlæt.ən/ AU
en /ˈlɛt.ən/ NZ
en ætɪn 2
Alternative forms
en Latten Latine obsolete
Etymology 1
From en enm Latyn, enm Latyne, enm Latin, from en fro latin, fro latyn, from en la latīnus, from la Latium the region around Rome + la -īnus adjective suffix. Displaced or merged with ang Lǣden. en Ladin Ladino.
Adjective
-
Of or relating to Latin: the language spoken in ancient Rome and other cities of Latium.
en 1948 L. E. Elliott-Binns The Beginnings of Western Christendom 257 Africa was the natural leader because there the number of Christians who were of Roman origin and Latin speech was probably far greater than in so cosmopolitan a city as Rome.
Of or relating to the script of the language spoken in ancient Rome and many modern alphabets.
en Roman
en 1968 Mladen Bošnjak A Study of Slavic Incunabula 62 The Serbo-Croatian incunabula printed in Latin letters are indubitably the products of a very modest establishment.
Of or relating to ancient Rome or its Empire.
en Roman
en 2000 T. M. Charles-Edwards Early Christian Ireland 176 The earliest Latin culture of Ireland was heavily indebted to that of Britain
Of or relating to Latium (modern Lazio), the region around Rome.
en Latian
en 1913 Oscar Browning A General History of the World 151 From the Campagna and the Latin hills, the flame of rebellion spread to Antium and Terracina, and to the most remote allies of the Romans, the cities of the Campanian plains.
Of or relating to the customs and people descended from the ancient Romans and their Empire.
en Romance
en Jewish Music: Its Historical Development Abraham Zevi Idelsohn 1929 399 Major for joy, Minor for sadness, is apparently a significance which the German nations read into these scales; while the Semitic, Latin, and Slavic nations do not share this conception.
en 2002 Dean Foster The Global Etiquette Guide to Mexico and Latin America 11 Therefore, although Portugal is a Latin culture, the significant African influence in Brazil creates a culture that cannot be defined simply as Latin; consequently, Brazilians prefer to define themselves as South American
Of or from Latin America or of Latin American culture.
en Latin American Latino
en 2008 Michael Miller The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music History 254 As such, today's Latin music is a synthesis of European, African, and the few indigenous elements that remain.
en Christianity Roman Catholic; of or pertaining to the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.
en Catholic Roman Roman Catholic
en 1901 John Hackett A History of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus 117 The Latin bishop now took the Greek bishop by the hand and conducted him to his throne
Quotations
en
Derived terms
en delatinization Gratin Greco-Latin lack-latin latimer Latindom Latinesque latinhood Latinhood Latinistic Latinless Latinly Latinness Latino- Latinophobia unlatined Latin-1 Latin grammar school Latin school Latin alphabet Latin America Latin Quarter Latin cross Latin script Latin time Latin square Vulgar Latin Latin hip-hop Traditional Latin Mass
Descendants
jam Latn
Translations
of the language
Afrikaans: af Latynse
Albanian: sq latin
Arabic: ar لَاتِينِيّ, ar الرُّومِيَّة
Hijazi Arabic: acw لاتيني lātīni
Armenian: hy լատիներեն
Azerbaijani: az latın, az latınca
Basque: eu latin
Belarusian: be лаці́нскі
Bengali: bn ল্যাটিন
Bulgarian: bg лати́нски
Burmese: my လက်တင်
Catalan: ca llatí
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 拉丁語 拉丁語的 lādīngyǔ de, cmn 拉丁 lādīng
Coptic: cop ⲙⲉⲧⲣⲱⲙⲉⲟⲥ
Czech: cs latinský m
Danish: da latinsk
Dutch: nl Latijns
Esperanto: eo latina
Estonian: et ladina
Faroese: fo latínskur
Finnish: fi latinalainen
French: fr latin
Friulian: fur
Galician: gl latín m
Georgian: ka ლათინური
German: de lateinisch
Middle High German: gmh latînisch
Greek: el λατινικός
Hawaiian: haw Lākina
Hebrew: he לטיני m lātini, he לטינית f lātinit
Hindi: hi लातिन, hi लातीनी, hi लातिनी
Hungarian: hu latin
Interlingua: ia latin
Irish: ga Laidine
Italian: it latino
Japanese: ja ラテン語 ラテン語の raten-go no, ja ラテン raten
Kazakh: kk латын
Khmer: km ឡាតាំង
Korean: ko 라틴
Kyrgyz: ky латин
Lao: lo ລາແຕັງ
Latin: la latīnus
Latvian: lv latīņu
Lithuanian: lt lotynų
Low German:
German Low German: nds-de latinsch
Macedonian: mk ла́тински
Malay: ms bahasa Latin, ms bahasa Rumawi, ms Latin
Māori: mi Rātini
Middle English: enm Latyn
Mongolian: mn латин
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb latinsk
Nynorsk: nn latinsk
Occitan: oc
Old English: ang Lǣden n
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk латински
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira لاتین
Polish: pl łaciński m, pl język łaciński m, pl łacina f
Portuguese: pt latino
Romanian: ro (limbă) latină, ro latin
Russian: ru лати́нский
Scottish Gaelic: gd Laidinn
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh ла̀тӣнскӣ
Latin: sh làtīnskī
Shan: shn လႅတ်ႉထိၼ်ႇ
Slovak: sk latinský
Slovene: sl latínski
Spanish: es latín
Swahili: sw Kilatini
Swedish: sv latinsk
Tajik: tg лотинӣ
Tamil: ta இலத்தீன்
Telugu: te లాటిను
Thai: th ภาษาละติน paasăa ládtin, th ละติน
Turkish: tr Latince
Ukrainian: uk лати́нський
Uzbek: uz latin
Vietnamese: vi (tiếng) Latinh, vi Latinh
Welsh: cy
Yiddish: yi לאַטײַן n
of the script
Arabic: ar لَاتِينِيّ, ar الرُّومِيَّة
Hijazi Arabic: acw لاتيني lātīni
Armenian: hy լատինական
Catalan: ca llatí
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 拉丁字母 lādīng zìmǔ
Danish: da latinsk
Dutch: nl Latijns
Faroese: fo latínskur
Finnish: fi latinalainen
Galician: gl latino m
German: de lateinisch
Hungarian: hu latin
Interlingua: ia latin
Italian: it latino
Khmer: km ឡាតាំង
Latvian: lv latīņu
Macedonian: mk латиничен
Malay: ms Rumi
Māori: mi Rātini
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb latinsk
Nynorsk: nn latinsk
Polish: pl rzymski m, pl łaciński m
Portuguese: pt latino
Russian: ru лати́нский
Scottish Gaelic: gd Ròmanach, gd Laidinn
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: sh latìničnī, sh latìničkī
Slovak: sk latinský
Slovene: sl latínski
Spanish: es latino
Swahili: sw Kilatini
Swedish: sv latinsk
Tamil: ta இலத்தீன்
Vietnamese: vi chữ Latinh
of ancient Rome
Albanian: sq latin
Arabic: ar لَاتِينِيّ, ar الرُّومِيَّة
Armenian: hy լատինական
Catalan: ca llatí, ca romà
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 古羅馬 古羅馬的 gǔ Lúomǎ de
Danish: da romersk, da latinsk
Dutch: nl Latijns, nl Romeins
Esperanto: eo romia
Faroese: fo rómverskur, fo latínskur
Finnish: fi roomalainen
Galician: gl romano
German: de römisch
Interlingua: ia roman
Italian: it romano m, it romana f
Japanese: ja 古代ローマ 古代ローマの kodai Rōma no
Latin: la latīnus, la rōmānus
Macedonian: mk римски, mk латински
Middle English: enm Latyn
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb romersk
Nynorsk: nn romersk
Polish: pl rzymski m, pl łaciński m
Portuguese: pt romano
Romanian: ro latin, ro roman
Russian: ru ри́мский, ru лати́нский
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: sh làtīnskī
Slovak: sk rímsky, sk latinský
Spanish: es romano
Swahili: sw Kirumi
Swedish: sv latinsk, sv romersk
Tamil: ta ரோம
Vietnamese: vi La Mã
of Latium
Arabic: ar لَاتِينِيّ, ar الرُّومِيَّة
Armenian: hy լատինական
Catalan: ca llatí, ca llatina
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 拉丁 拉丁的 Lādīng de
Danish: da latinsk
Dutch: nl Latijns
Esperanto: eo latia
Finnish: fi latinalainen
Galician: gl latino m
German: de latinisch
Interlingua: ia latin
Italian: it latino m, it latina f
Japanese: ja ラテン ラテンの Raten no
Latin: la latīnus
Macedonian: mk латински m
Polish: pl latyński
Portuguese: pt latino
Spanish: es latino
Swedish: sv latinsk
of descendants from ancient Romans
Arabic: ar لَاتِينِيّ, ar الرُّومِيّ
Hijazi Arabic: acw روماني rōmāni, acw لاتيني lātīni
Armenian: hy լատինական
Czech: cs latina f
Danish: da romersk, da latinsk
Dutch: nl Latijns, nl Romeins
Finnish: fi roomalainen
Galician: gl latino m
German: de romanisch
Interlingua: ia roman
Italian: it latino m, it latina f, it latini m-p, it latine f-p
Japanese: ja ラテン系 ラテン系の ratenkei no
Macedonian: mk романски, mk латински
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb romersk
Nynorsk: nn romersk
Portuguese: pt latino
Romanian: ro latin, ro roman
Russian: ru рома́нский, ru лати́нский
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: sh làtīnskī
Spanish: es romano, es latino
Swedish: sv latinsk, sv romersk
of/from Latin America
Armenian: hy լատինական
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 拉丁美洲 拉丁美洲的 Lādīng Měizhōu de
Danish: da latinamerikansk
Dutch: nl Latijns, nl Latijns-Amerikaans
Esperanto: eo latin-amerika
Finnish: fi latinalaisamerikkalainen
Galician: gl latinoamericano m
German: de lateinamerikanisch
Hebrew: he לטיני m lātini, he לטינית f lātinit
Ido: io Latina
Italian: it sudamericano
Japanese: ja ラテンアメリカ ラテンアメリカの Raten Amerika no
Khmer: km អាមេរិកឡាទីន
Macedonian: mk латиноамерикански, mk латински
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb latinsk
Nynorsk: nn latinsk
Polish: pl latynoski m
Portuguese: pt latino-americano
Romanian: ro latino-american
Russian: ru лати́нский, ru латиноамерика́нский
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: sh latinoamerički
Spanish: es latino, es latinoamericano
Swahili: sw Mhispaniki
Swedish: sv latinsk, sv latinamerikansk
Turkish: tr Latin Amerikalı
Vietnamese: vi Mỹ Latinh, vi latino
Roman Catholic
Breton: 1,2,4 br latin, 5 br romanek
Irish: ga Laidineach
Etymology 2
From en enm Latin, enm Latyn, from en ang Latin and en fro latin, fro latyn, both from en la Latinus belonging to Latium. Compare nl Latijn Latin, de Latein Latin, sv Latin Latin.
Proper noun
~ s
en Q397en uncountable The language of the ancient Romans, other Latins and of the Roman Catholic church, especially Classical Latin.
en 1799 Edward Dubois A Piece of Family Biography https://books.google.fr/books?id=v60BAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA20 II 20 Supper being over, the lawyer took his leave, and the doctor began to ſound the learned clerk reſpecting his proficiency in the dead languages. "As to dead languages," replied the ſchoolmafter, "I was once a vaſt pretty ſcholar indeed, but want of exercise has made me main ſlackI can't get over my ground as I uſed to do. Then as to the t'other dead fellow, I could never greek it at all, that's flat. And, Lord bleſs you! my Latin is of no more uſe to me here thanthan" Here he ſtuck for want of a ſimile; when Mr. Le Dupe helped him out by ſaying, "that it is to a young man at college, where it is conſidered a pedantic inſult, and an unpardonable bore, to utter a Latin ſentence."
1999, Karl Strecker, transl. by Robert B. Palmer, Introduction to Medieval Latin: English Translation and Revision, 2nd ed. (2nd reprint of the ed. Dublin/Zürich 1971 (Berlin 1957)), Weidmannsche Buchhandlung Weidmann: Zürich & Hildesheim, p. 29:
To Hall [Robert A. Hall, Jr.], the development would be something as follows: Latin > Proto-Romance (dated late Republic and Early Empire) > Proto-Continental Romance > Proto-Italo-Western Romance (to which Hall would limit the term "Vulgar Latin") > Proto-Western Romance > Proto-Gallo Romance, etc. Each of these main divisions splits off into further languages: Latin > Classical Latin; Proto-Romance > Proto-Southern Romance > Sardinian, Lucianian, Sicilian; Proto-Continental Romance > Proto-Eastern Romance > Proto-Balkan Romance, etc.
en 2003 Natalie Harwood The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Latin 2nd 13 When the Christian Church rose in stature in the Dark Ages, its adoption of Latin as the official language assured its eternal life.
en 2010 Elizabeth Heimbach A Roman Map Workbook 134 Like Copernicus and Galileo, Johannes Kepler was a renowned astronomer who wrote in Latin.
en Rami Kaminski How Outsiders Can Thrive in a World That Wants Them to Fit In Next Big Idea Club https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/outsiders-can-thrive-world-wants-fit-bookbite/55990/ 2025-06-19 I call them otroverts—from otro, the Spanish word for “other,” and vertere, Latin for “to turn.” Otroverts are people who turn in a different direction: not inward like introverts, not outward like extroverts, but elsewhere. They turn toward something else entirely—independence, clarity, and observation. https://web.archive.org/web/20260823204210/https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/outsiders-can-thrive-world-wants-fit-bookbite/55990/ 23 August 2026
The Latin alphabet or writing system.
en printing The nonsense placeholder text (often based on real Latin) used in greeking.
Quotations
en
Hyponyms
en Anglo-Latin, en Early Latin, en Neo Latin/en Neo-Latin
Derived terms
en African Latin Anglo-Latin apothecary's Latin cod Latin hog Latin macaronic Latin mock Latin Latinate Latiner Sir John Lack-Latin Latinisation Latinise Latinism Latinist Latinization Latinize Latin name law Latin neo-Latin pig Latin,Pig Latin British Latin
Related terms
en Latinity Latino Latium latus Lazio
Translations
language of the ancient Romans
Afrikaans: af Latyn
Amharic: am ሮማይስጥ
Arabic: ar اللَّاتِينِيَّة f, ar اللُّغَة اللَّاتِينِيَّة f al-luḡa l-lātīniyya, ar الرُّومِيَّة
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܠܵܛܝܼܢܝܼܬ m, aii ܠܸܫܵܢܵܐ ܠܵܛܝܼܢܵܝܵܐ m
Armenian: hy լատիներեն
Asturian: ast llatín m
Azerbaijani: az latın dili
Belarusian: be лаці́нская мова f, be лаці́нская f, be лаці́на f
Bengali: bn লাতিন ভাষা
Bulgarian: bg лати́нски ези́к m, bg лати́нски m
Burmese: my လက်တင်, my လက်တင်ဘာသာစကား
Catalan: ca llatí m
Chichewa: ny Chilatini 7
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 拉丁語 lādīngyǔ
Czech: cs latina f
Danish: da latin
Dutch: nl Latijn
Esperanto: eo latino, eo latina lingvo
Estonian: et ladina keel, et ladina
Farefare: gur Latinne
Faroese: fo latín n
Finnish: fi latina
French: fr latin m
Galician: gl latín m
Georgian: ka ლათინური ენა
German: de Latein n, de Lateinisch n, de lateinische Sprache f
Bavarian: bar Latein
Greek: el λατινικά n-p
Greenlandic: kl latinerisut
Hawaiian: haw ʻōlelo haw Lākina
Hebrew: he לָטִינִית f lātinít
Hindi: hi लैटिन, hi लातिन, hi लातिन भाषा f, hi लातीनी f, hi लातिनी f
Hungarian: hu latin
Interlingua: ia latino
Irish: ga Laidin f
Old Irish: sga Laiten f
Italian: it latino m, it lingua latina f
Japanese: ja ラテン語 ラテンご, ratengo (obsolete: ja 拉丁語)
Khmer: km ឡាតាំង, km ភាសាឡាតាំង phiəsaa laatang
Korean: ko 라틴어(語)
Lao: lo ລາແຕັງ, lo ພາສາລາແຕັງ
Latin: la lingua Latīna f, la Latīnum n
Latvian: lv latīņu valoda f
Lithuanian: lt lotynų kalba f
Low German: nds-de Latin, nds-de Latyn n East-Westphalian
Macedonian: mk латински m
Malay: ms Latin, ms bahasa Latin, ms Rumawi, ms bahasa Rumawi
Māori: mi reo Rātini
Middle English: enm Latyn
Mwera: mwe Shilatini 7
Navajo: nv Léétin bizaad
Ndendeule: dne Kilatine 7
Norman: nrf Latîn m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb latin nb latinsk
Occitan: oc latin m
Odia: or ଲାଟିନ୍
Old English: ang Lǣden n
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira زَبانِ لاتین, fa-ira لاتین
Plautdietsch: pdt Latiensch n
Polish: pl język łaciński m, pl łacina f
Portuguese: pt latim m
Romanian: ro limbă latină f, ro latină f
Russian: ru лати́нский язы́к m, ru латы́нь f
Scots: sco Laitin
Scottish Gaelic: gd Laideann f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh латински језик m, sh ла̀тӣнскӣ m, sh латинштина f
Latin: sh latinski jezik m, sh làtīnskī m, sh latínština f
Shona: sn Chiratini 7
Sinhalese: si ලතින්, si ලතින් භාෂාව
Slovak: sk latinčina f
Slovene: sl latínščina f
Spanish: es latín
Suba: sxb Olulatiini 11
Swedish: sv latin n
Tajik: tg забони лотинӣ
Tamil: ta இலத்தீன்
Telugu: te లాటిను
Thai: th ภาษาละติน paa-sǎa lá-dtin, th ละติน
Tsonga: ts Xilatini 7
Tumbuka: tum Cilatini 7
Turkish: tr Latince
Ukrainian: uk лати́нська мова f, uk лати́нська f, uk лати́на f, uk лати́нь f
Urdu: ur لاطینی زبان f lātīnī zabān
Vietnamese: vi tiếng Latinh, vi Latinh
Welsh: cy Lladin
Yao (Africa): yao Cilatini 7
Zhuang: za Sawlahdingh
a script or alphabet
Finnish: fi latinalainen kirjaimisto, fi latinalainen aakkosto
Russian: ru лати́ница f
Swedish: sv latinska n
Tamil: ta இலத்தீன்
Noun
en historical A person native to ancient Rome or its Empire.
en Roman
en 1833 Edward Robinson Philipp Buttmann A Greek grammar for the use of high schools and universities 23 This appears incontestably from the manner in which the Latins wrote Greek words and names
en historical A member of an Italic tribe that included the early inhabitants of the city of Rome, and from about 1000 BCE inhabited the region known as Old Latium.
en Latial Latian
A person from one of the modern European countries (including Italy, Spain etc.) whose language is descended from Latin.
en 1933 Gilbert Keith Chesterton 'All I Survey': a book of essays 148 No; the test of the contrast between modern Latins and modern Teutons is exactly like the test of the contrast between modern Latins and ancient Latins.
en 1961 w:Tom Mead Killers of Eden Sydney w:Angus and Robertson 190 ‘Ah, them mad Latins is always trying to kill each other off.’
en 1982 w:Lawrence Durrell Constance Faber & Faber 2004 Avignon Quintet 760 Latins are always conspicuously dangerous when they are serving an unpopular cause for money.
A person from Latin America.
en Latin American Latino
en 1922 William Edmund Aughinbaugh Advertising for trade in Latin-America 150 In the use of patent medicine the average Latin resembles the American of fifty years ago, who generally had a bottle of some concoction on which he depended whenever he felt out of sorts.
en 1986 In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology Joseph Beam Creating Ourselves: An Open Letter Daniel Garrett A great country will be when men and women, Africans and Europeans and Latins and Asians are accepted as human, as valuable 100
en Christianity A person adhering to Roman Catholic practice.
en Catholic Roman Roman Catholic
en 1853 William Palmer Dissertations on Subjects Relating to the "Orthodox" or "Eastern-Catholic" Communion 118 The modern Latins have been in the habit of blaming the Greek and other Eastern Liturgies for not consecrating by the recital of OUR SAVIOUR'S words of Institution
Coordinate terms
Christianity en Greek, en Orthodox
Translations
person native to ancient Rome or its Empire
Arabic: ar رُومِيّ
Armenian: hy հռոմեացի
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 拉丁人 lādīngrén
Czech: cs Říman m
Danish: da romer
Dutch: nl Romein
Esperanto: eo romiano
Faroese: fo rómverji m
Finnish: fi roomalainen
German: de Römer m
Hebrew: he רומאי m romāʾi
Interlingua: ia romano
Italian: it romano m, it romana f
Japanese: ja 古代ローマ人 kodai Rōma jin
Korean: ko 고대(古代)로마인(人)
Latin: la rōmānus m, la rōmāna f, la rōmānī m-p
Macedonian: mk Римјанин m, mk Римјанка f
Middle English: enm Latyn
Portuguese: pt romano m
Romanian: ro latin m, ro latină f, ro roman m, ro romană f
Russian: ru ри́млянин m, ru ри́млянка f
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: sh Làtīn m, sh Làtīnka f, sh Latínjanin m, sh Latínjānka f
Slovak: sk Riman m, sk Rimanka f
Slovene: sl Rimlján m, sl Rimljánka f
Spanish: es romano m
Swedish: sv romare c
Tamil: ta ரோமர் c
Telugu: te రోమను
Turkish: tr Romalı
Vietnamese: vi người La Mã
person whose native tongue is one descended from Latin
Arabic: ar رُّومِيَّة
Dutch: nl Romaan
Finnish: fi romaanisen kielen puhuja
German: de Romane m
Italian: it latino
Korean: ko 이탈리아어파
Macedonian: mk Латин m, mk Латинка f
Portuguese: pt latino m
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: sh Làtīn m, sh Làtīnka f, sh Latínjanin m, sh Latínjānka f
Spanish: es latino m
Telugu: te లాటిను
person from Latin America Latin American
Finnish: fi latino
person adhering to Roman Catholic practice
Armenian: hy լատին
Finnish: fi roomalaiskatolinen
Middle English: enm Latyn
Arabic: ar رُومِيّ
Breton: 1 br latin m, 2 br Roman m, 4 br unan a ra gant ur yezh romanek
Danish: da latiner
Ido: 1 io Latin
Interlingua: ia latino
Irish: ga Laidineach m
Italian: it neolatino m, it neolatina f
Latin: la latinus m, 2 la latina f
Macedonian: mk Латин m, mk Латинка f
Portuguese: pt latino m
Romanian: ro latin m, ro latină f, ro roman m, ro romană f
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: sh Làtīn m, sh Làtīnka f, sh Latínjanin m, sh Latínjānka f
Slovak: 1 sk latinčina f, sk Riman m, 2 sk Rimanka f, sk Roman m, 3, 4 sk Romanka f
Spanish: es latino m
Tatar: tt latín
Ukrainian: uk латинська (1)
Vietnamese: vi người gốc La Mã
See also
la
Wikipedia’s list of Latin phrases
Etymology 3
Metonymic occupational surname for a Latinist, a clerk or keeper of Latin records, from en enm Latyn. Compare en Latimer.
Proper noun
s
en Middle English.
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Latin is the 35246th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 639 individuals. Latin is most common among Black/African American (44.44%), White (37.09%) and Hispanic/Latino (15.34%) individuals.
Further reading
1 la lat
lat
Anagrams
en ailnt talin
en Alphabets Ancient Rome Demonyms Languages Latin People
French
Pronunciation
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-0x010C-Latin.wav
Noun
m
en Latin resident or native of Latium
resident or native of a Romance country such as Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Romania, etc, whose language is derived from en Latin
Derived terms
fr latiniser latinisme latiniste latinité
Anagrams
fr liant
fr Demonyms
Malay
Etymology
From ms la latīnus, from la Latium the region around Rome + la -īnus adjective suffix.
Pronunciation
ms [laten]
ms aten ten en
Noun
ms noun
en Latin language of the ancient Romans
ms Rumawi
Maltese
Pronunciation
mt /laˈtiːn/
mt iːn 2
Noun
noun m Il-Latin
Latin language
mt Languages
Middle English
Etymology 1
Adjective
enm adjective 1
enm Latyn
Etymology 2
Proper noun
enm proper noun 1
enm Latyn
Old English
Alternative forms
ang Lætin Mercian
Etymology
ang la Latīnus, from la Latium -īnus 1.
Pronunciation
Latin
Proper noun
Latin n
en Latin language
ang Leden
Declension
Latin 1 sg
Descendants
enm Latyn 1 reinforced by fro latin
References
latin, lætin E19318
Adjective
Latin
en Latin relating to the Latin language
ang Leden
Declension
Latin
Descendants
enm Latyn 1 reinforced by fro latin
References
latin E19317
ang Languages
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
sh /lǎtiːn/
sh La tin
Noun
Làtīn m-an
en Latin (person native to ancient Rome or its Empire, descended from the ancient Romans or speaking a Romance language)
sh Neka znaju Švabe i Latini,Neće biti granice na Drini! Let the Germans and the Latins (Italians) know,The border will not be on the Drina!(Serb pre-Yugoslav nationalist slogan)
Declension
Latin Latini Latina Latina Latinu Latinima Latina Latine Latine Latini Latinu Latinima Latinom Latinima
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :bor es:latín + 1
Pronunciation
Latín
Proper noun
Latín +
en Latin language
Derived terms
tl latinin latinan paglalatinan maglatin lumatin
Related terms
tl Latino
Noun
Latín +
en Latin native of Ancient Rome
tl colloquial any incomprehensible language
Further reading
Anagrams
tl ailnt linta
tl Languages People